mastodon

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈmæs.tə.dɒn/    美 /ˈmæs.tə.dɑn/|/ˈmæs.tə.dən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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”.
  2. Anything awkwardly large or unwieldy. figuratively
    — The battery is dying, and Natalia's iPhone charger doesn't fit my mastodon of a phone anyway.

词形变化

mastodons plural mastodont alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
Mastodon mastodonian mastodonic mastodonlike mastodontid
相关词
amastia glyptodon gynecomastia mastoid mastos orthodontist periodontal

词源

First attested 1813, from translingual Mastodon (1806), coined by French naturalist Georges Cuvier, from masto- (“breast”) + -odon (“tooth”), due to the mammilloid (“nipple-shaped”) projections on the crowns of the extinct mammal's molars.
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