Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of megatherioid edentate mammals founded by Owen in 1840 upon remains of a species called
S. leptocephalum , from the Pleistocene of Patagonia.
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To these were now added the _Mylodon Darwinii_, a giant sloth; the scelidotherium, a somewhat smaller form; the great camel-like, yet odd-toed, macrauchenia; and the toxodon, as large as a hippopotamus, yet having a strange resemblance to the little rodents.
chained_bear commented on the word scelidotherium
"A genus of megatherioid edentate mammals. Also anglicized scelidothere, an animal of this genus." (OED)
September 15, 2008