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• n  extinct elephant-like mammal that flourished worldwide from Miocene through Pleistocene times; differ from mammoths in the form of the molar teeth

• From Raising Steaks, on the Beacon Beefsteak, a night of beef eating and male bonding: "It's every caveman for himself, clasping his meat like a hunk of mastodon, gnawing flesh that .
• Until lately the mastodon was generally thought to have died about 20,000 years ago.
• There are many personal-finance software packages that help people track their money, including the industry mastodon, Intuit's Quicken, which dwarfs Mint with 15 million users.

• mastodont

News & Articles

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• Gardeners dig up meteorite in Williams
  WILLIAMS — Curious things tend to turn up in Williams. First, it was a prehistoric mastodon jaw. Now, it’s an even older specimen — a meteorite, sent spiraling to ...
  June 22, 2013 - Bedford Times-Mail

Quotes

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• Arnold Schwarzenegger in CBS News
  The executive branch of this government is a mastodon frozen in time and about as responsive,Schwarzenegger said. "This is not the fault of our public servants, but of the system."
• Tim Kasher in Billboard
  I questioned it at first and was kind of intimidated,Kasher tells Billboard.com. "Like, why would we play a metal show? But I kind of like the idea of where they're going with it. I met one of the Mastodon members and he was pretty...
• Brendan Canty in Billboard
  Mastodon did an acoustic song, minus the drummer,Canty says. "It is amazing. Their records are totally impressive, but when you hear them play the songs on acoustic guitars, you realize how interesting their music is. Black Lips played and...