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noun

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

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First attested 1813, from the genus name Mastodon (1806), coined by Georges Cuvier, from + , from the similarity of the mammilloid projections on the crowns of the extinct mammal's molars.

Noun

Extinct elephant-like mammal of the genus Mammut that flourished worldwide from Miocene through Pleistocene times; differs from elephants and mammoths in the form of the molar teeth.