单词 | tree sloth |
释义 | tree sloth (once / 2363863 pages) n WORD FAMILY tree sloth USAGE EXAMPLESIf you have ever seen a living tree sloth, you would be completely surprised that they have such gargantuan extinct relatives. Washington Post(Aug 20, 2013) Its surviving cousin, the South American tree sloth, lives similarly. BBC(May 17, 2013) The shasta ground sloth roamed the Grand Canyon during the Ice Age Its surviving cousin, the South American tree sloth, lives similarly. BBC(May 17, 2013) n any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals of South America and Central America; they hang from branches back downward and feed on leaves and fruits Syn|Hypo|Hyper sloth Bradypus tridactylus, ai, three-toed sloth a sloth that has three long claws on each forefoot and each hindfoot Choloepus didactylus, two-toed sloth, unai, unaurelatively small fast-moving sloth with two long claws on each front foot Choloepus hoffmanni, two-toed sloth, unai, unaua sloth of Central America that has two long claws on each forefoot and three long claws on each hindfoot edentate primitive terrestrial mammal with few if any teeth; of tropical Central America and South America |
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