English Explanatory Dictionary

megalodon

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A species of extinct shark that lived during the Miocene and Pliocene epochs (†Otodus megalodon).

Word forms

megalodon megalodons

Etymology

Learned borrowing from taxonomic name megalodon, from Ancient Greek μεγάλος (megálos, “big”) + ὀδών (odṓn, “tooth”). By surface analysis, megalo- + -odon.

Synonyms

megatooth
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