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

mas·to·don

(măstə-dŏn′) also mas·to·dont (-dŏnt′)

Any of several very large, extinct proboscidian mammals of the family Mammutidae of the Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene Epochs, resembling elephants but having molar teeth of a different structure.

[New Latin Mastodōn, genus name : Greek mastos, breast, nipple + Greek odōn, tooth (from the nipple-shaped protrusions on the crowns of its molars); see dent- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]

mas′to·donic adj.

单词	mastodon
释义	mas·to·don (măstə-dŏn′) also mas·to·dont (-dŏnt′) n. Any of several very large, extinct proboscidian mammals of the family Mammutidae of the Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene Epochs, resembling elephants but having molar teeth of a different structure. [New Latin Mastodōn, genus name : Greek mastos, breast, nipple + Greek odōn, tooth (from the nipple-shaped protrusions on the crowns of its molars); see dent- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] mas′to·donic adj.
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