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mastodon Any of several species of extinct elephantine mammals, all of which existed mainly in the Pleistocene epoch. Mastodons had a long coat of red hair; the grinding teeth were notably smaller and less complex than those of modern elephants, and the males had small tusks on the lower as well as the upper jaw. Genus Mastodon.

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mas·to·don / ˈmastəˌdän/ • n. a large, extinct, elephantlike mammal (Mammutidae and other families, many species) of the Miocene to Pleistocene epochs, having teeth of a relatively primitive form and number.

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mastodon See GOMPHOTHERIIDAE; and MAMMUTIDAE.

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mastodon extinct elephantine mammal having nipple-shaped tubercles on the molars. XIX. f. Gr. mastós breast + odðn, odont- TOOTH.

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mastodon (Mammut, Mastodon) See MAMMUTIDAE.

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