Ground Sloth Definition

noun

Any of various extinct herbivorous mammals of the group Edentata or Xenarthra of the Oligocene Epoch through the Holocene Epoch that inhabited South and North America. Some ground sloths, including megatherium, were very large.

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megathere

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Noun

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ground sloth

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ground sloths

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