英语词汇“mastodon”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

mastodon

/ˈmastədɒn

noun

A large extinct elephant-like mammal of the Miocene to Pleistocene epochs, having teeth of a relatively primitive form and number.

Mammutidae and other families, order Proboscidea: many species.

All too often books written for a popular audience include animals such as mammoths, mastodons, plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs, and the sail-backed Dimetrodon....

Geologists say it probably once belonged to a woolly mammoth or a mastodon.
In lower latitudes, mastodons and elephants, giant deer and ox, beavers, dogs and cats, and other familiar species existed in the forests and grasslands.

Derivatives

mastodontic

/mastəˈdɒntɪk

/ adjective ...

Then the really terrifying thought struck me: are acts of such atrocity the only way to get rid of mastodontic eyesores like these?

Origin

Early 19th century: modern Latin, from Greek mastos 'breast' + odous, odont- 'tooth' (with reference to nipple-shaped tubercles on the crowns of its molar teeth).

单词	mastodon
释义	mastodon /ˈmastədɒn / noun A large extinct elephant-like mammal of the Miocene to Pleistocene epochs, having teeth of a relatively primitive form and number. Mammutidae and other families, order Proboscidea: many species. All too often books written for a popular audience include animals such as mammoths, mastodons, plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs, and the sail-backed Dimetrodon.... Geologists say it probably once belonged to a woolly mammoth or a mastodon. In lower latitudes, mastodons and elephants, giant deer and ox, beavers, dogs and cats, and other familiar species existed in the forests and grasslands. Derivatives mastodontic /mastəˈdɒntɪk / adjective ... Then the really terrifying thought struck me: are acts of such atrocity the only way to get rid of mastodontic eyesores like these? Origin Early 19th century: modern Latin, from Greek mastos 'breast' + odous, odont- 'tooth' (with reference to nipple-shaped tubercles on the crowns of its molar teeth).
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