mastodon
noun
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Synonyms
behemoth, blockbuster, colossus, dinosaur, dreadnought, elephant, giant, Goliath, jumbo, leviathan, mammoth, monster, titan, whale, whopper
Antonyms
diminutive, dwarf, half-pint, midget, mite, peewee, pygmy (also pigmy), runt, shrimp
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Then Jiminy Cricket pops up — yep — and another town is overrun with mastodons. — Ron Charles, Washington Post, "Salman Rushdie’s ‘Quichotte’ is a shambling ‘Don Quixote’ for our deceptive era," 3 Sep. 2019 This encourages frequent short visits, which are the best way to view masterpieces or mastodons. — Mona Charen, National Review, "Life in D.C.," 22 Aug. 2019 According to Ohio History Central, both mastodon and mammoth fossils have been found around the state. — Amanda Jackson, CNN, "A 12-year-old snags a mammoth discovery while on vacation in Ohio," 14 Aug. 2019 The following year, three boys in Mississippi dug up a mastodon fossil believed to be almost 100,000 years old. — Fox News, "Woolly mammoth tooth discovered in Ohio creek by 12-year-old boy," 14 Aug. 2019 This encourages frequent short visits, which are really the best way to view masterpieces or mastodons. — Mona Charen, National Review, "In Defense of Washington, D.C.," 12 Aug. 2019 The key, her team suggests, was dietary flexibility following the disappearance of many of North America’s large prehistoric herbivores, such as giant ground sloths, mammoths, mastodons, and camels. — John Pickrell, National Geographic, "Saber-tooth surprise: Fossils redraw picture of the fearsome big cat," 5 Aug. 2019 By around 13,000 years ago, our ancestors were on every continent, sharing the Ice Age-era Earth with megafauna like the mastodon. — Rachael Lallensack, Smithsonian, "Here Are 12 Things You Might Miss in the Smithsonian’s New Fossil Hall," 7 June 2019 Defined by the long trunks and massive size, Proboscidea's ancestry include the mastodon of Ice Age fame. — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, "It Will Take Millions of Years for Evolution to Replace What We Might Lose in the Next 50," 16 Oct. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'mastodon.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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