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noun
Any of various extinct species of sloth in several families which are believed, due to their size and/or body type, to have lived on the ground rather than in trees.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
gigantic extinct terrestrial sloth-like mammal of the Pliocene and Pleistocene in America
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: megathere
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: megatherian, megatheriid, megatherian mammal
History
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