megatheriums
- plural of megatherium.
Example Sentences
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"If a thousand megatheriums were let loose upon the world, in twenty-four hours they would all be in museums."
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 by Various
I expect to be served," murmured the journalist in him, "by beautiful tame megatheriums, in sashes.
From Romance Island by Gale, Zona
Also barbacued mastodons and megatheriums, gallantly served up with fir-trees in their mouths, and tails cock-billed.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Melville, Herman
"Why, for my part, on the contrary, I should have taken special care to preserve megatheriums and pterodactyles, and all the antediluvian species of which we are unfortunately deprived by his neglect."
From In Search of the Castaways; or the Children of Captain Grant by Verne, Jules
And one year I had the whole blooming faculty out here on a fossil expedition; but, by Heaven, McCloud, some of them looked more like megatheriums than what they dug up did.”
From Whispering Smith by Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers)
