american mastodon

English Thesaurus

1. mastodon of North America; in some classifications considered a mammoth rather than a mastodon (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	mastodon, mastodont,
definition	:	extinct elephant-like mammal that flourished worldwide from Miocene through Pleistocene times; differ from mammoths in the form of the molar teeth (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	genus mammut, genus mastodon, mammut,
definition	:	extinct type genus of the Mammutidae: mastodons (noun.animal)