mastodon

FREQ #38528

n. 乳齿象

发音

UK /ˈmæs.tə.dɒn/
其它
US /ˈmæs.tə.dɑn/
US /ˈmæs.tə.dən/

词形变化

mastodons 复数 mastodons

别名

mastodont

释义与例句

n.
  1. 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.

    乳齿象

  2. 2.

    Anything awkwardly large or unwieldy.

    比喻

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

mastodont

上位词 2

proboscidean proboscidian

相关短语

John Mastodon

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.

来源：wiktionary