Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The South American two-toed sloth, Cholopus didactylus. See cut under Cholopus.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) The two-toed sloth (Cholopus didactylus), native of South America. It is about two feet long. Its color is a uniform grayish brown, sometimes with a reddish tint.

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  • noun zoology Choloepus didactylus, a two-toed sloth native to South America.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a sloth of Central America that has two long claws on each forefoot and three long claws on each hindfoot
  • noun relatively small fast-moving sloth with two long claws on each front foot

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Portuguese, from Tupí uná, lazy.]

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Brazilian Portuguese.

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