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Definition of Sloths
1. sloth [n] - See also: sloth
Medical Definition of Sloths
1. Slow-moving exclusively arboreal mammals that inhabit the tropical forests of south and central america. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sloths
Literary usage of Sloths
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy by Royal Irish Academy (1877)
"ON A FEW POINTS IN THE CRANIAL OSTEOLOGY OF sloths. By ALEX. ... Is the Museum
of the University of Dublin there arc several very good specimens of sloths, ..."
2. Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1874)
"ON THE PLACENTATION OF THE sloths. By PROFESSOR TURNER. IN this Journal, June,
1873, a short abstract was given of a memoir communicated to the Royal ..."
3. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1851)
"... and to the additional arguments derivable from the skeleton of that animal in
favour of the essential affinity of the Megatherium to the sloths ; and ..."
4. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1851)
"... and to the additional arguments derivable from the skeleton of that animal in
favour of the essential affinity of the Megatherium to the sloths ; and ..."
5. A Guide to the Fossil Mammals and Birds in the Department of Geology and by Arthur Smith Woodward (1904)
"The sloths, anteaters, and armadillos have been characteristic of the South ...
The modern sloths and anteaters are almost unknown Wall-case among fossils ..."
6. The National Review edited by Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot (1860)
"Thus we do not find in Northern Europe and Asia the remains of sloths and marsupials
... As in the latter country the sloths and armadillos appear to be the ..."
7. The Polar and Tropical Worlds: A Description of Man and Nature in the Polar by Georg Hartwig (1872)
"... of Life—The Unau—The Ai— Gigantic Primeval sloths.—Monkeys: Good Climbers,
but bad Walkers—Imperfectly known to the Ancients—Similitudes and Differences ..."
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