Extinct elephant-like mammal that flourished worldwide from Miocene through Pleistocene times

Usage examples of mastodont.

The mastodont seemed to swim into focus, as if ice water were draining out of his eyes.

With a noisy slurp the mastodont sucked up a trunkful of water, draining the bag.

One mastodont was wallowing in the mud of a shallow water hole, its fringe crusted with late-winter ice.

He lashed at Jaw with his stick, apparently punishing the mastodont for his minor theft of the food.

They came to a place where the grass had been worn away by deep round mastodont footprints.

The mastodont rummaged among his winter-dry fodder and selected a suitable branch.

Here and there, as a mastodont stirred, snow fell away, revealing a swatch of red-black hair, a questing trunk or a peering eye.

He was covered in mastodont dung, and he was jumping up and down furiously.

She would ride him around the mastodont stockade, and Longtusk learned to ignore the mocking, somewhat envious jeers of the mastodonts.

Crocus walked with her father and the Shaman to the bone stockpile, a short distance from the mastodont stockade.

And there was a small cup of carved stone, filled with sticky animal fat, within which a length of plaited mastodont fur burned slowly, giving off a greasy smoke.

It was a transformation that could not even have been imagined by any mammoth or mastodont who ever lived.

Then, chanting in unison and with the help of mastodont muscles, they pulled her on her back.

The ice dam settled, seeking comfort, like a working mastodont laboring under some bone-cracking load.

Longtusk turned once more, trunk raised, he saw and smelled more mastodonts to his left and right, like a line of stocky, hairy boulders: a row of them, all powerful adult males.