Word.ws English Dictionary

mastodont

mastodont is the alternative form 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

See all 4 meanings of mastodon

Forms of mastodont

pluralmastodonts

Words formed from mastodont

Questions about mastodont

What is mastodont the alternative form of?
Mastodont is the alternative form of mastodon.

Words near mastodont in the dictionary

  1. mastodons
  2. mastodonsaur
  3. mastodonsaurid
  4. mastodonsaurids
  5. mastodonsaurs
  6. mastodont
  7. mastodontic
  8. mastodontoid
  9. mastodonton
  10. mastodontons
  11. mastodonts

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: mastodont (page history and authors); mastodon (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “mastodont.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/mastodont. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.