ground sloth

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noun

any of various extinct large, edentate mammals from the Pleistocene Epoch of North and South America resembling modern sloths but living on the ground rather than in trees.

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Origin of ground sloth

First recorded in 1855–60

Words nearby ground sloth

ground shark, groundsheet, groundside, groundsill, groundskeeper, ground sloth, ground sluice, groundsman, groundspeed, ground squirrel, ground state

How to use ground sloth in a sentence

The footprints were found alongside those of mammoths, giant ground sloths and other megafauna that flocked to water in the largely arid landscape.
‘Ghost tracks’ suggest people came to the Americas earlier than once thought|Freda Kreier|September 23, 2021|Science News
Perhaps it’s evidence of a range extension for a known ground sloth species for which we have no DNA.
What’s in a packrat’s petrified pee? Just a few thousand years of secrets.|Rachel Feltman|August 12, 2021|Popular-Science
A roughly 14,000-year-old midden made by vizcachas in southwestern Argentina yielded a turd from an extinct species of ground sloth.
What’s in a packrat’s petrified pee? Just a few thousand years of secrets.|Rachel Feltman|August 12, 2021|Popular-Science
Presently a large ground sloth came to the pool to drink, lapping up the water at the sides that had partly cooled.
A Journey in Other Worlds|John Jacob Astor

The largest of the edentates was the Megatherium, a clumsy ground sloth bigger than a rhinoceros.
The Elements of Geology|William Harmon Norton
It was called the giant ground sloth, and, as you may judge from this name, was not very quick in its movements.
The Children's Book of London|Geraldine Edith Mitton