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mastodonic

  • a word derived from mastodon.
    mastodon
    noun
    a massive, elephantlike mammal of the genus Mammut (Mastodon ), that flourished worldwide from the Miocene through the Pleistocene epochs and, in North America, into recent times, having long, curved upper tusks and, in the male, short lower tusks.

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This season the mastodonic Easter, who makes a bat look like a baton, has made American League pitchers dread his appearance at the plate.

From Time Magazine Archive

Richard Nixon's onetime right-hand man was pleased with the honor-and with the likeness, which he said captured what "pundits" called his "squinty little eyes and mastodonic nose."

From Time Magazine Archive

Then new and strange gifts to Orpheus from Mr. Carillo were played: the arpacitera, a mastodonic zither, tuned in 16ths; the octavina, a towering double-bass guitar, capable of eighths; a guitarre adapted to produce quarter-tones.

From Time Magazine Archive

Musically, it is the most impressive of this extraordinary mastodonic survival of the "pianistic" past.

From Chopin : the Man and His Music by James Huneker

Upon the mastodonic brow of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce there hangs an official laurel wreath.

From Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street by Julian Street