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Mastodon has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

extinct elephant-like mammal that flourished worldwide from Miocene through Pleistocene times; differ from mammoths in the form of the molar teeth

2

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.

3

A nickname for both the 4-8-0 and (though incorrectly) the 4-10-0 train configurations.

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
proboscidean
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
American mastodon
Rhyming Words
don udon adon abdon pedon hedon redon mudon codon sidon addon eldon radon bidon lydon ladon jadon foldon mardon condon
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