英语词汇mastodon的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	mastodon
词源	mastodon. This extinct animal, resembling the elephant, is so called from the New Latin Mastodon, its genus name. The Latin comes from the Greek mastos, breast plus odon, tooth. It is so called in the Greek because of the “nipplelike projections on the mastodon’s teeth,” according to Chambers Dictionary of Etymology.
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