Definitions for mastodon

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mastodon mas·to·don

Spelling: [mas-tuh-don]

IPA: /ˈmæs təˌdɒn/

Mastodon is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 274 anagrams from letters in mastodon (admnoost).

Definitions for mastodon

noun

1. a massive, elephantlike mammal of the genus Mammut (Mastodon), that flourished worldwide from the Miocene through the Pleistocene epochs and, in North America, into recent times, having long, curved upper tusks and, in the male, short lower tusks.
2. a person of immense size, power, influence, etc.

Origin of mastodon

1805-15; New Latin Greek mast(ós) breast + odṓn tooth

Examples for mastodon

It has already abandoned the mastodon Arctic Shtokman field.

Its staff was mastodon ivory, the paleontologists had determined.

All the Indians in the group that had gathered about the mastodon, nodded at this.

The mastodon staggered, then regained his stride and went rushing on.

"I had come up from the lower hills all one day," said the mastodon.

Forepaugh had a mastodon up his sleeve for everybody else's elephant.

The mastodon rocked to and fro on his huge feet, embarrassedly.

She says they were only made for scenery—like the rhinoceros and the mastodon.

A good deal of interest is connected with the finding of one mastodon's tooth.

No mastodon steak for them, Dolly; no nice wing-bone of ictiosaurus—they starved.