What's the difference between mastodon and mastodont?
Mastodon
Definition:
(n.) An extinct genus of mammals closely allied to the elephant, but having less complex molar teeth, and often a pair of lower, as well as upper, tusks, which are incisor teeth. The species were mostly larger than elephants, and their romains occur in nearly all parts of the world in deposits ranging from Miocene to late Quaternary time.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rincón lists his most significant findings with the contagious enthusiasm of a child reciting the cast of the Ice Age movies: the giant femur of a six-tonne mastodon, a giant ground sloth, a 10-ft pelican, caimans the size of buses and the almost intact skull of a sabre-toothed tiger.
(2) Viewers may have tuned in to watch Feist or Bon Iver (or even "sludge" metallers Mastodon), but time seemed to stand still when La Havas took the stage.
(3) Nesta has worked with the centre for the advancement of sustainable medical innovation and Mastodon C to learn more about the take up of innovations by GP practices in England.
(4) A few months ago, a well-publicised paper claimed that the great beasts of the Americas – mammoths and mastodons, giant ground sloths, lions and sabretooths, eight-foot beavers, a bird with a 26-foot wingspan – could not have been exterminated by humans, because the fossil evidence for their extinction marginally pre-dates the evidence for human arrival .
(5) 3.50am BST Gary, meanwhile, opted for the "Mastodon" , which is only slightly more recognizable as a burger.
(6) In the Americas, alongside mastodons, mammoths, four-tusked and spiral-tusked elephants, there was a beaver the size of a black bear: eight feet from nose to tail.
(7) Here's some new sun-kissed indie rock from Avi Buffalo… …Some new imperious prog-metal from Mastodon… …and some new "dilapidated house" from Gut Nose.