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mastodontic, a.|mæstəˈdɒntɪk|
[formed as prec. + -ic.]
Of or belonging to a mastodon; resembling the mastodon.
1857H. Miller Test. Rocks ii. 90 The mastodontic period is removed by two great geologic eras from the present time. 1886Century Mag. XXXI. 355 Some men of large size; others of mastodontic proportions. 1895Athenæum 2 Mar. 285/3 The African elephant..belongs, as regards its dentition, to an earlier and mastodontic type.
So mastoˈdontine a. = prec. (Cent. Dict. 1890); mastoˈdontoid a., resembling the mastodon.
1842Owen in Ann. Nat. Hist. XI. 12 The..collector and transmitter of the Mastodontoid fossils. |