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ground sloth meaning

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WGround sloth
  • Ground sloths are a diverse group of extinct sloths, in the mammalian superorder Xenarthra.
  • The bulk of ground sloth evolution took place during the mid to late Tertiary of South America while the continent was isolated. At their earliest appearance in the fossil record, the ground sloths were already distinct at the family level.
  • Sloths, and xenarthrans as a whole, represent one of the more successful South American groups during the Great American Biotic Interchange.
ground sloth
ground sloth
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        • Singularia tantum
          • Uncountable nouns
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      1. en ground sloths
      Source: Wiktionary

      Meaning of ground sloth for the defined word.

      Grammatically, this idiom "ground sloth" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun and a singularia tantum.
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