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- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thefamily Megatheriidae — themegathere , a giant ground sloth.
Etymologies
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Examples
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For example the Megatherium, which is now in the hands of the decorators, is being painted a pale pink outside, a colour which recent experiments have shown to exert a peculiarly humanising and tranquillising influence on persons of an irritable disposition.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 18th, 1920 Various
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You find the great sloth-like creature, the 'Megatherium', and the great armadillo, the 'Glyptodon', and so on.
Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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David Lort-Phillips and I are off to London meet Nunatak, him and Darwin's Megatherium - no that's not his megatherium of natural selection tomorrow.
Archive 2007-09-01 2007
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David Lort-Phillips and I are off to London meet Nunatak, him and Darwin's Megatherium - no that's not his megatherium of natural selection tomorrow.
Project news... 2007
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I recognized by the oblique feet that it was some extinct creature after the fashion of the Megatherium.
The Time Machine, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006
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Did man, after his first inroad into South America, destroy, as has been suggested, the unwieldy Megatherium and the other Edentata?
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First, parts of three heads and other bones of the Megatherium, the huge dimensions of which are expressed by its name.
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The great size of the bones of the Megatheroid animals, including the Megatherium, Megalonyx, Scelidotherium, and Mylodon, is truly wonderful.
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Megatherium and the Pterodactyles, must have been eighteen feet high.
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Megatherium, or that one of the fossil monkeys was few in number compared with one of the now living monkeys? and yet in this comparative rarity, we should have the plainest evidence of less favourable conditions for their existence.
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