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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ground sloth

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.10 in modern English

Syllables
ground s-loth
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of various extinct species of sloth in several families which are believed, due to their size and/or body type, to have lived on the ground rather than in trees.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

ground sloths (plural)

Phrases

Harlan's ground sloth Shasta ground sloth

Synonyms

megathere

Questions

What does ground sloth mean?
Any of various extinct species of sloth in several families which are believed, due to their size and/or body type, to have lived on the ground rather than in trees.

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