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ground sloth

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ground sloth
n.
Any of various massive extinct edentates, especially of the genus Megatherium, inhabiting South America during the Pleistocene Epoch and related to the sloths. Also called giant ground sloth.
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Noun1.ground slothground sloth - gigantic extinct terrestrial sloth-like mammal of the Pliocene and Pleistocene in America
megathere
megatherian, megatherian mammal, megatheriid - a large extinct ground sloth
genus Megatherium, Megatherium - type genus of the Megatheriidae


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