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three-toed sloth

n. a sloth that has three long claws on each forefoot [syn: ai, Bradypus tridactylus]

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Three-toed sloth

The three-toed sloths are tree-living mammals from South and Central America. They are the only members of the genus Bradypus and the family Bradypodidae. The four living species of three-toed sloths are the brown-throated sloth, the maned sloth, the pale-throated sloth, and the pygmy three-toed sloth.

Usage examples of "three-toed sloth".

He knew, for instance, that sloths were called sloths because the Tupi word for the three-toed sloth was ai, and AI had stood for artificial idiot or artificial imbecile ever since the concept of artificial intelligence had been subdivided.

Master Li will be a three-toed sloth, and Miser Shen will be a tree, and you will be a flower, and I will be a cloud, and some day we will come together in a beautiful garden.

Described as a complacent Southerner who moves with the agility of a three-toed sloth.

You're as relaxed as a three-toed sloth, Tommy,' George protested.

It is one of the things that distinguish them from the three-toed sloth.

He frowns, searching for a way to describe the miracles of modern technology to a three-toed sloth.

She sprang away from him, horrified to realize she might have been only a kiss away from turning him into a three-toed sloth.