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Gigantic extinct terrestrial sloth-like mammal of the Pliocene and Pleistocene in America
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megathere
Word definitions for megathere in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. An extinct, gigantic, ground sloth (genus ''Megatherium'') that flourished in South America during the Pleistocene epoch.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. gigantic extinct terrestrial sloth-like mammal of the Pliocene and Pleistocene in America [syn: ground sloth ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Megathere \Meg"a*there\, Megatherium \Meg`a*the"ri*um\, n. [NL. megatherium, fr. Gr. me`gas great + qhri`on beast.] (Paleon.) An extinct gigantic quaternary mammal, allied to the ant-eaters and sloths. Its remains are found in South America.
Usage examples of megathere.
The whiff of megathere manure wafts up from the kitchen gardens and middens, and the more fragrant smell of peat smoke drifts from chimneys.
I halted and listened, and the megathere, no longer disturbed by my footfalls, settled back into the deathlike sleep of its kind.
Tents were being struck even while rehearsals continued, so that I saw a seemingly solid pyramid of striped canvas collapse like a flag thrown down and reveal beyond it the grass-green megathere rearing on his hind legs while a dancer pirouetted on his forehead.
In among the suits and Sunday best, kids cavort in costumes of dinosaurs, megatheres, apemen, saurs, and krakens.