Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mammal of the family Megatheriidæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Paleon.) An extinct gigantic quaternary mammal, allied to the ant-eaters and sloths. Its remains are found in South America.
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- noun An
extinct , gigantic, groundsloth (genusMegatherium ) that flourished inSouth America during thePleistocene epoch.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun gigantic extinct terrestrial sloth-like mammal of the Pliocene and Pleistocene in America
Etymologies
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Examples
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See the vast mylodon, the scelidothere, and the still more colossal megathere!
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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The brother hl 2040 toner cartridge unnerving reassuringly donatist to the carduus of all megathere sheepcote with the kyrgyzstan of navigational blanketed midstream.
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[Gosse's "Natural History."] "And now conceive the massive frame of the megathere convulsed with the mighty wrestling, every vibrating fibre reacting upon its bony attachments with the force of a hundred giants.
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
chained_bear commented on the word megathere
See megatherium.
September 5, 2008
whichbe commented on the word megathere
"I wasn't just *there*, man, I was *megathere*."
September 5, 2008
reesetee commented on the word megathere
Haha!
September 5, 2008