mastodon

Anlam (İngilizce)

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.

Kavramlar

mastodon

Eş anlamlılar

mastodont

monster

Mammut

mastodonton

Çeviriler

mastodonte

mastodonte

mastodonte

mastodonte

Mastodon

mastodont

mastodont

Mammut

mammutidae

μαστόδοντας

mastodon

Mastodonte

mastodontes

(IPA) olarak telaffuz edilir

/ˈmæstədɑn/

Etimoloji (İngilizce)

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.