2. Noun. (plural of mastodon) ¹
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Definition of Mastodons
1. mastodon [n] - See also: mastodon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mastodons
Literary usage of Mastodons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1907)
"... Indian good spirit, Vu, 274. Elephant (mastodon), skeleton of, XXII, 69; in
hieroglyphics, XXVI, 77. See also Mammoths and Mastodons. ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1922)
"We should expect the earlier mastodons to show just the difference in the ...
It now seems that the true mastodons may be traced back to the species ..."
3. Essay on the Theory of the Earth by Georges Cuvier, Robert Jameson, Samuel Latham Mitchill (1818)
"Ribs, of the shape common to the skeletons of mastodons. 9. Very large vertebrae.
10. The skulls of buffaloes or bisons, ..."
4. An Introduction to Geology: Intended to Convey a Practical Knowledge of the by Robert Bakewell, Benjamin Silliman (1839)
"... Mastodons—of Elephants.—Recent Tertiary Strata of the Basin of the Loire.— Of
the sub-Apennine Ranges.—Of the Fresh-water Formations in the Apennine ..."
5. Thayer Expedition by Charles Frederick Hartt (1870)
"... Mastodons, immense Armadillos and Cats, Horses, &c., in Brazil. — Remains of
a Race of Man of high Antiquity. — Reinhardt's Generalizations. ..."
6. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1895)
"... to have closer affinities with the Devonian than with the Carboniferous.
EDITORIAL COMMENT. THE SHAW Mastodons. An exceedingly interesting addition ..."
7. Thayer Expedition by Charles Frederick Hartt (1870)
"... Mastodons, immense Armadillos and Cats, Horses, &c., in Brazil. — Remains of
a Knee of Man of high Antiquity. ..."
8. Researches in Theoretical Geology by Henry Thomas De La Beche, William John Broderip (1834)
"... rocks terminated, having first lived in the same districts with Mastodons,
Rhinoceroses, &c. Other genera, found in the lower part of the series, ..."