MASTODON

Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1842 · p. 28

(Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) A genus of extinct fo il quadrupeds allied to the elephant; so called from the conical projections upon the surfaces of the molar teeth. MASTOID. {Gr. t^(rrt?,a.nAithas, form.) Certain nipple-like protuberances of the bones. [s. 735]