mastodon

Εννοια (Αγγλικός)

1. 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.
2. (figuratively) Anything awkwardly large or unwieldy.

Έννοιες

μαστόδοντας

Συνώνυμα

mastodont

monster

Mammut

mastodonton

Μεταφράσεις

mastodonte

mastodonte

mastodonte

mastodonte

Mastodon

mastodont

Mammut

mastodont

mastodon

mastodon

Mastodonte

mastodontes

mammutidae

Προφέρεται ως (IPA)

/ˈmæstədɑn/

Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

First attested 1813, from translingual Mastodon (1806), coined by French naturalist Georges Cuvier, from masto- (“breast”) + -odon (“tooth”), due to the mammilloid (“nipple-shaped”) projections on the crowns of the extinct mammal's molars.