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Definition of Three-toed sloth
1. Noun. A sloth that has three long claws on each forefoot and each hindfoot.
Generic synonyms: Sloth, Tree Sloth
Group relationships: Bradypus, Genus Bradypus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Three-toed Sloth
Literary usage of Three-toed sloth
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wanderings in South America, the North-west of the United States, and the by Charles Waterton (1879)
"This was an Ai, or three-toed Sloth. It was in the possession of a gentleman who
was collecting curiosities. He wished to have it killed, ..."
2. Notes by a Naturalist: An Account of Observations Made During the Voyage of by Henry Nottidge Moseley (1892)
"Overburdened Ant . three-toed sloth. Slavery in Brazil. Bahia. Brazil, September
14th to 25th, 1873.—The ship approached Bahia, under steam and sail, ..."
3. The Mammalia in Their Relation to Primeval Times by Schmidt (Eduard Oskar) (1886)
"But what a difference in the limbs! Of the character of these limbs in the two
species, Mcga- Fio. 9.—Skull of the three-toed sloth. ..."
4. The Mammalia in Their Relation to Primeval Times by Schmidt (Eduard Oskar) (1886)
"But what a difference in the limbs! Of the character of these limbs in the two
species, Mcga- Fio. 9.—Skull of the three-toed sloth. ..."
5. Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1851)
"The three-toed sloth has its arms twice as long as the feet, and the body is
covered with coarse hair, resembling withered grass ; the color is gray, ..."
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