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Plural of mastodon

regular plural

The plural of mastodon is mastodons.

Forms of mastodon

Singularmastodon /ˈmæs.tə.dɒn/
Pluralmastodons
Countablecountable

Mastodons in a sentence

  • "great beasts that resembled huge brown haystacks" and had long, long teeth — tusks, no doubt — so it seems incontrovertible that mastodons and woolly mammoths are meant.1990, Neil Rolde, Maine: A Narrative History, page 9. From the entry pachydermic

Meaning of mastodon

  1. noun 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.
  2. noun Anything awkwardly large or unwieldy.

Full definition of mastodon

Questions about the plural of mastodon

What is the plural of mastodon?
The plural of mastodon is mastodons.
Is mastodon countable?
Mastodon is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mastodon (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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