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megalonyx Palæont.|mɛgəˈlɒnɪks|
[mod.L., f. Gr. µεγαλο- great (see megalo-) + ὄνυξ claw.]
A large fossil sloth-like edentate from the post-pliocene strata of North America.
1797Jefferson Writ. (1859) IV. 195 The Megalonyx, as we [? sc. the American Philosophical Society] have named him. 1813Byron in Moore Lett. & Jrnls. (1830) I. 461 The Mammoth and Megalonyx. 1839Penny Cycl. XV. 73/1 The Megalonyxes were provided with a tail.
attrib.1887Amer. Naturalist XXI. 459 The Megalonyx Beds. |