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TREE SLOTH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals of South America and Central America; they hang from branches back downward and feed on leaves and fruits
Synonyms:
sloth; tree sloth
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("tree sloth" is a kind of...):
edentate (primitive terrestrial mammal with few if any teeth; of tropical Central America and South America)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tree sloth"):
ai; Bradypus tridactylus; three-toed sloth (a sloth that has three long claws on each forefoot and each hindfoot)
Choloepus didactylus; two-toed sloth; unai; unau (relatively small fast-moving sloth with two long claws on each front foot)
Choloepus hoffmanni; two-toed sloth; unai; unau (a sloth of Central America that has two long claws on each forefoot and three long claws on each hindfoot)
Holonyms ("tree sloth" is a member of...):
Bradypodidae; family Bradypodidae (a family of edentates comprising the true sloths)
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