mastodon

Nghĩa (Tiếng Anh)

  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.

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Mammut

mastodonton

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Phát âm là (IPA)
/ˈmæstədɑn/
Từ nguyên (Tiếng Anh)

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.

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