megatherium
noun
any of the genus Megatherium of extinct giant ground sloths of the Pliocene and Pleistocene eras.
megatheria
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pluralof megatherium.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Little could he imagine our own era's "wasteful megatheria."
From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2023
Here he stood facing an immense collection of scattered leptotheria, mericotheria, lophiodia, anoplotheria, megatheria, mastodons, protopithecæ, pterodactyles, and all sorts of extinct monsters here assembled together for his special satisfaction.
From A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Jules Verne
Surely they were the weirdest, most destructive and wasteful megatheria in the whole history of mechanical invention.
From The War in the Air by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
All over the town manufactories and public buildings of colossal size stand, like megatheria, knee-deep in a jungle of houses.
From Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 by Various
Those of the bulk of the mastodons, megatheria, glyptodons, and diprotodons, are uniparous.
From The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Philip Henry Gosse
