Extinct+elephant
61mastodon — [ mastədɒn] noun a large extinct elephant like mammal of the Miocene to Pleistocene epochs, having teeth of a relatively primitive form and number. Origin C19: mod. L., from Gk mastos breast + odous, odont tooth (with ref. to nipple shaped… …
62mammoth — I. n. Extinct elephant (Elephas primigenus). II. a. Gigantic, very large …
63mastodon — n. extinct elephant like animal …
64mastodon — ► NOUN ▪ a large extinct elephant like mammal of the Miocene to Pleistocene epochs. ORIGIN from Greek mastos breast + odous tooth (with reference to nipple shaped tubercles on the crowns of its molar teeth) …
65enormous — [ē nôr′məs, inôr′məs] adj. [ME enormyouse < L enormis (see ENORMITY) + OUS] 1. very much exceeding the usual size, number, or degree; of great size; huge; vast; immense 2. Archaic very wicked; outrageous enormously adv. enormousness n. SYN.… …
66mammoth — n. & adj. n. any large extinct elephant of the genus Mammuthus, with a hairy coat and curved tusks. adj. huge. Etymology: Russ. mamo(n)t …
67mastodont — noun extinct elephant like mammal that flourished worldwide from Miocene through Pleistocene times; differ from mammoths in the form of the molar teeth • Syn: ↑mastodon • Hypernyms: ↑proboscidean, ↑proboscidian • Hyponyms: ↑American mastodon, ↑ …
68dis|ar|tic|u|late — «DIHS ahr TIHK yuh layt», transitive verb, intransitive verb, lat|ed, lat|ing. to separate at the joints: »One of the party,…found a large part of the disarticulated skeleton of a mammoth, an extinct elephant (Science News Letter) …
69Indricotherium — ▪ extinct mammal also called Paraceratherium , formerly Baluchitherium, genus of giant browsing perissodactyls found as fossils in Asian deposits of the Late Oligocene and Early Miocene epochs (30 to 16.6 million years ago). The… …
70environment — environmental, adj. environmentally, adv. /en vuy reuhn meuhnt, vuy euhrn /, n. 1. the aggregate of surrounding things, conditions, or influences; surroundings; milieu. 2. Ecol. the air, water, minerals, organisms, and all other external factors… …
