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MASTODONT

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Extinct elephant-like mammal that flourished worldwide from Miocene through Pleistocene times; differ from mammoths in the form of the molar teeth

Synonyms:

mastodon; mastodont

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("mastodont" is a kind of...):

proboscidean; proboscidian (massive herbivorous mammals having tusks and a long trunk)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mastodont"):

American mastodon; American mastodont; Mammut americanum (mastodon of North America; in some classifications considered a mammoth rather than a mastodon)

Holonyms ("mastodont" is a member of...):

genus Mammut; genus Mastodon; Mammut (extinct type genus of the Mammutidae: mastodons)

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