megatherium
noun
any of the genus Megatherium of extinct giant ground sloths of the Pliocene and Pleistocene eras.
megatheriums
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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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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 N. C. (Newell Convers) Wyeth
"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 feel inclined to cry "a fig for your big oysters, and your bigger megatheriums."
From Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Sir Francis Darwin
"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 Jules Verne
I expect to be served," murmured the journalist in him, "by beautiful tame megatheriums, in sashes.
From Romance Island by Zona Gale
