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

: any of various large and often very large extinct American edentate mammals related to the recent sloths and anteaters — compare megatherium, mylodon

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.

[1855-60]

ground sloth,

any one of various toothless, extinct, American mammals related to the mega-there and the present-day sloths. They did not climb trees and often grew to a length of 20 feet.

n. an extinct terrestrial edentate mammal of the Cenozoic era in America, typically of very large size. ● Order Xenarthra (or Edentata). See , mylodon