megathere

megathere
/meg"euh thear'/, n.
any of the huge, slothlike animals of the extinct genus Megatherium, or closely related genera, that lived from the Oligocene to the Pleistocene epochs.
[1830-40; < NL Megatherium; see MEGA-, -THERE]

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