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- noun (Paleon.) One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.
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- noun paleontology One of a
family ofextinct edentates found inAmerica , including the megatherium and themegalonyx , among others.
Etymologies
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Megatherium + -oid
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To these succeed transported soils (_alluvium_), containing the gigantic bones of ancient mammalia, such as the mastodons, the dinotherium, and the megatheroid animals, among which is the mylodon of Owen, an animal upwards of eleven feet in length, allied to the sloth.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science Various 1909
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