sloth
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- noun
- /sloʊθ/
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perezoso
- The sloth is known for its unique ability to grip branches with its long claws.
- a giant sloth
- a ground sloth
- sloth relatives
The Egyptians shouldn't have known about woolly mammoths or or giant sloths, right?
- The Egyptians shouldn't have known about woolly mammoths or or giant sloths, right?
- We went to the Peruvian Amazon and out there I was studying the sloth and the pink dolphin.
- T firing a crossbow from the back of a giant sloth.
- And I've got a couple more days here looking at birds and trees and lizards and sloths and frogs.
- And you all pointed out that it would have been like this because she's a two fingered sloth.
- Mastodons, mammoths, giant ground sloths, direwolves, Pleistocene lions, Saber toothed cats, giant elk, giant Beaver.
- It looks like a blue, a sloth in like blue face.
- Next, I'm hunting the rare morbidly obese sloth.
Examples
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It's claws hook over the branches, so that the sloths can hang without any effort.
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The sloth hangs upside down from branches, feeding on leaves and fruits.
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Now the meal will be feeding a hungry sloth.
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Volunteer Opportunity: Want to go work at a Sloth Sanctuary in Costa Rica?
Blog text (9) -
We went to the Peruvian Amazon and out there I was studying the sloth and the pink dolphin.
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The folktale involved four animals: a snail, a tiger, a sloth, and a turtle.
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Even the largest of the ground sloths, the gigantic Megatherium, survived until relatively recently.
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This unhurried approach to life means that sloths don't need very much muscle.
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In the rainforest, a sloth slowly moves between the trees, enjoying the warm sun.
Synonyms
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A slow-moving animal that lives in trees in Central and South America and hangs upside down to eat leaves
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A slow animal from Central and South America that lives in trees and has three long claws on each foot
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A slow tree animal from Central and South America with two long claws on each front foot
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A three-toed sloth from South America with long claws that moves slowly
A group of slow three-toed sloths that live in trees in Central and South America
A sloth from South America that has three long claws on each foot
A group of two-toed sloths that live in Central and South America
A slow tree-dwelling animal with two long claws on each front foot, found in Central and South American rainforests
A slow animal from South America that lives in trees and has two long claws on each front foot
A sloth that lives in trees in Central and South America with two long claws on each front foot
Compounds
- US
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A very large extinct mammal with long claws that lived on land in the Americas long ago
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A slow animal from Central and South America that lives in trees and has three long claws on each foot
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A slow-moving animal that lives in trees in Central and South America and hangs upside down to eat leaves
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A slow tree animal from Central and South America with two long claws on each front foot
How Arboreal
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word sloth for the animal comes from the same old word as slow ('slow'), because the animal moves and sleeps very slowly and rests a lot. So, the sloth is named for its slow, low-energy life in the trees.