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Definition of Mastodonts
1. mastodont [n] - See also: mastodont
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mastodonts
Literary usage of Mastodonts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1869)
"... the present South American fauna, compared with that of the eastern hemisphere,
did not exist in the pre-historic fauna; the post-pliocene mastodonts, ..."
2. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art. by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1869)
"... the present South American fauna, compared with that of the eastern hemisphere,
did not exist in the pre-historic fauna; the post-pliocene mastodonts, ..."
3. Researches Into the Physical History of Mankind by James Cowles Prichard (1847)
"... illustrated by the discovery of the remains of elephants and mastodonts, which
the Olmecas, as other nations have done, mistook for the bones of giants. ..."
4. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1849)
"Those ancient barbarians, the contemporaries perhaps of mammoths and mastodonts,had
skulls of a peculiar shape,and these skulls are found only in sepulchres ..."
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