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Mammut

noun

extinct type genus of the Mammutidae: mastodons

• Syn: ↑genus Mammut, ↑genus Mastodon

• Hypernyms: ↑mammal genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Mammutidae, ↑family Mammutidae, ↑family Mastodontidae

• Member Meronyms: ↑mastodon, ↑mastodont, ↑American mastodon, ↑American mastodont, ↑Mammut americanum

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\\ˈmamət\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from German, mammoth, from French mammouth, from Russian mamot, mamont — more at mammoth

: the proboscidean genus comprising the mastodons and being the type and in some classifications sole genus of a family (Mammutidae) closely related to the Elephantidae

Useful english dictionary. 2012.