mastodon
/ˈmæs.tə.dɒn//ˈmæs.tə.dɑn/
- n.
- 乳齿象
中文释义来自 ECDICT
构词拆解
masto-
前缀
‘breast’
{{l|mul|-odon}}
词干
‘tooth’
- masto-
- Alternative form of mast-.
词源链
- mul
Mastodon
派生
- 英语English
mastodon
词源说明
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.
释义
名词noun
- 1Extinct 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.
- 2figurativeAnything awkwardly large or unwieldy.