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Noun: ground sloth  grawnd slowth
  1. Gigantic extinct terrestrial sloth-like mammal of the Pliocene and Pleistocene in America
    "The ground sloth was as large as a modern elephant";
    - megathere

Derived forms: ground sloths

Type of: megatherian, megatherian mammal, megatheriid

Part of: genus Megatherium, Megatherium

Encyclopedia: Ground sloth