ground sloth

noun

any of various extinct large, edentate mammals from the Pleistocene Epoch of North and South America resembling modern sloths but living on the ground rather than in trees.

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1855–60

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ground sloth
noun
gigantic extinct terrestrial sloth-like mammal of the Pliocene and Pleistocene in America

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