Usually means: Giant extinct ground sloth species.
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  1. Megatherium: Merriam-Webster
  2. Megatherium, megatherium: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Megatherium: Vocabulary.com
  4. Megatherium, megatherium: Wordnik
  5. megatherium: Wiktionary
  6. megatherium: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. megatherium: Dictionary.com
  8. Megatherium: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Megatherium: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Megatherium: Rhymezone
  11. Megatherium: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. megatherium: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. megatherium: FreeDictionary.org
  14. megatherium: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. megatherium: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. Megatherium: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  17. Megatherium: Merriam-Webster

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  1. megatherium: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (megatherium)

▸ noun:  A ground sloth of the extinct genus Megatherium

Similar:
genus megatherium, megatherid, megathere, megatheriid, megalonyx, ground sloth, mylodon, megatheroid, nothrotheriid, mylodont, more...

Opposite:
microtherium, minitherium, nanotherium

Types:
sloth, armadillo, anteater, pangolin, platypus, echidna, opossum, wombat, more...

Phrases:
genus megatherium, more...

Adjectives:
bacillus, extinct, gigantic, old, unwieldy, lysogenic, fossil, last, enormous, single, lordly

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Similar:
genus megatherium, megatherid, megathere, megatheriid, megalonyx, ground sloth, mylodon, megatheroid, nothrotheriid, mylodont, more...

Opposite:
microtherium, minitherium, nanotherium

Types:
sloth, armadillo, anteater, pangolin, platypus, echidna, opossum, wombat, more...

Phrases:
genus megatherium, more...

Adjectives:
bacillus, extinct, gigantic, old, unwieldy, lysogenic, fossil, last, enormous, single, lordly



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