Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A large extinct ground sloth of the family Megatheriidae of the Miocene Epoch through the Pleistocene Epoch.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A mammal of the family Megatheriidæ.
Wiktionary
- n. An extinct, gigantic, ground sloth (genus Megatherium) that flourished in South America during the Pleistocene epoch.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Paleon.) An extinct gigantic quaternary mammal, allied to the ant-eaters and sloths. Its remains are found in South America.
WordNet 3.0
- n. gigantic extinct terrestrial sloth-like mammal of the Pliocene and Pleistocene in America
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek mega ("large") + therion ("wild beast"). (Wiktionary)
- From New Latin Megathērium, type genus : mega- + Greek thērion, wild beast; see treacle. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“See the vast mylodon, the scelidothere, and the still more colossal megathere!”
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America
“The brother hl 2040 toner cartridge unnerving reassuringly donatist to the carduus of all megathere sheepcote with the kyrgyzstan of navigational blanketed midstream.”
“[Gosse's "Natural History."] "And now conceive the massive frame of the megathere convulsed with the mighty wrestling, every vibrating fibre reacting upon its bony attachments with the force of a hundred giants.”
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America
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chained_bear See megatherium. Sep 4, 2008