Definition of Family Bradypodidae

1. Noun. A family of edentates comprising the true sloths.

Exact synonyms: Bradypodidae
Generic synonyms: Mammal Family
Group relationships: Suborder Xenarthra, Xenarthra
Member holonyms: Sloth, Tree Sloth, Bradypus, Genus Bradypus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Bradypodidae

family Bignoniaceae
family Bittacidae
family Blastodiaceae
family Blattidae
family Blechnaceae
family Blenniidae
family Boidae
family Boletaceae
family Bombacaceae
family Bombycidae
family Bombycillidae
family Bombyliidae
family Boraginaceae
family Bothidae
family Bovidae
family Bradypodidae (current term)
family Bramidae
family Branchiobdellidae
family Branchiostegidae
family Branchiostomidae
family Brevicipitidae
family Bromeliaceae
family Brotulidae
family Bruchidae
family Bryaceae
family Buccinidae
family Bucconidae
family Bucerotidae
family Bufonidae

Literary usage of Family Bradypodidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1904)
"An edentate mammal of the family Bradypodidae. remarkably adapted to an arboreal life, and represented by many species, all residents of tropical America. ..."

2. The Life of Animals: The Mammals by Ernest Ingersoll (1907)
"The sloths, forming the family Bradypodidae, and known through all the forested lowlands of tropical America, are really pretty close counterparts of the ..."

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