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Definition of Bradypus tridactylus
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 Bradypus Tridactylus
Literary usage of Bradypus tridactylus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Entertaining Naturalist: Being Popular Descriptions, Tales, and by Loudon (Jane) (1850)
"(bradypus tridactylus.) THIS animal, which is sometimes also called Ai, in
reference to a noise it makes when caught, is most curiously formed. ..."
2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1888)
"In a subsequent dissection of the gravid uterus of bradypus tridactylus I have
recognised that this membrane in its relations to the foetus corresponded ..."
3. Catalogue of Carnivorous, Pachydermatous, and Edentate Mammalia in the by John Edward Gray (1869)
"bradypus tridactylus, var., Peters. Hob. Tropical America; Brazil. b. Fur elongate,
very flaccid, whitish ; dorsal streak very short, indistinct, ..."
4. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1869)
"On the Myology of bradypus tridactylus; with Remarks on the general Muscular
Anatomy of the Edentata. By ALEXANDER MACALISTER, Demonstrator of Anatomy, ..."
5. Sitzungsberichte der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch by Kaiserl. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse (1871)
"bradypus tridactylus. Neuw. Bei t rz Naturg. Brasil. B. II. S. 481. Nr. 1.
„ „ Griffith.Anim. ... 193. bed bradypus tridactylus brasiliensis. Kl a in v. ..."
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