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ground sloth
ground slothn. Any of various extinct herbivorous mammals of the group Edentata or Xenarthra of the Oligocene Epoch through the Holocene Epoch that inhabited South and North America. Some ground sloths, including megatherium, were very large. Also called giant ground sloth.Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  ground sloth - gigantic extinct terrestrial sloth-like mammal of the Pliocene and Pleistocene in Americamegatheremegatherian, megatherian mammal, megatheriid - a large extinct ground slothgenus Megatherium, Megatherium - type genus of the Megatheriidae |
ground sloth
ground slothA now-extinct very large mammal that once inhabited North and South America. I wish I could go back in time to when ground sloths roamed the Earth—how cool would that be?See also: groundground sloth
Synonyms for ground slothnoun gigantic extinct terrestrial sloth-like mammal of the Pliocene and Pleistocene in AmericaSynonymsRelated Words- megatherian
- megatherian mammal
- megatheriid
- genus Megatherium
- Megatherium
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