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Definition of Ground sloth

1. Noun. Gigantic extinct terrestrial sloth-like mammal of the Pliocene and Pleistocene in America.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ground Sloth

Literary usage of Ground sloth

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

1. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences by New York Academy of Sciences (1917)
"SYSTEMATIC TREATMENT NEW GENUS OF ground sloth The type of ... and consequently it is not so surprising to discover remains of a ground sloth on Porto Rico. ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Л presumed Urge ground-sloth from Mada- R.-iscar has been described, on the evidence of a ... of Ground-Sloth from the Pleistocene of Nebraska, Bui Amer. ..."

3. A Guide to the Exhibition Galleries of the Department of Geology and by Henry Woodward (1881)
"In the Giant ground sloth only one set of teeth were provided, but these by constant upward growth, and continual addition of new matter beneath, ..."

4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1903)
"From this evidence it may be regarded as a clearly established fact that the Patagonian ground-sloth was a contemporary of man ; and it has been further ..."

5. Outdoor Heritage by Harold Child Bryant (1919)
"Lending support to this theory is tangible evidence unearthed nearby, of fragments of a skull and bones of a ground sloth. The latest expert word is by Dr. ..."

6. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1910)
"The ossicles were in association with remains of a large ground sloth somewhat similar to Mylodon in foot structure. Realizing that the peculiar conditions ..."

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