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
The enquirer who undertakes the study of it will sometimes be scarcely less surprised than would be the naturalist who should unexpectedly stumble upon antediluvian megatheria grazing tranquilly in the same field with prize Southdowns.
From Russia by Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace
I, who had just come from Professor Sedgwick's Cambridge Museum of megatheria and mastodons, was ready to maintain that some cleverer elephants or mylodonta had borne off and laid these rocks one on another.
From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2 by Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey
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
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
