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mastodons

mastodons is the plural of mastodon.

Meaning of mastodon

Noun

mastodon (plural mastodons)

  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.
    • When, exactly, Europeans first stumbled upon the bones of an American mastodon is unclear. An isolated molar unearthed in a field in upstate New York was sent off to London in 1705; it was labeled the “tooth of a Giant”.2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, chapter 2, in The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Henry Holt and Company
    Synonyms:
    incognitum
  2. (figuratively) Anything awkwardly large or unwieldy.
    • The battery is dying, and Natalia's iPhone charger doesn't fit my mastodon of a phone anyway.2017, Nina Laurin, Girl Last Seen

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Noun capitalized: Mastodons

Mastodons

  1. (plural) plural of Mastodon

Questions about mastodons

What is mastodons the plural of?
Mastodons is the plural of mastodon.
What part of speech is mastodons?
Mastodons is a noun.

Words near mastodons in the dictionary

  1. mastocytosis
  2. mastodon
  3. mastodonian
  4. Mastodonians
  5. mastodonic
  6. mastodons
  7. mastodonsaur
  8. mastodonsaurid
  9. mastodonsaurids
  10. mastodonsaurs
  11. mastodont

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