mastodon

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

MAS'TODON, noun [Gr. mamilla, and tooth.] A genus of mammiferous animals resembling the elephant, now extinct, and known only by their fossil remains. It includes the noun American mammoth.
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