Meanings of megatherium in English

Upon whose sloping shores disport the enormous mastodon, the stately megatherium, the tremendous-eh?

Talk about your megatherium and your megalosaurus,-whatare these to the bacterium and the vibrio?

In this deposit around the lake (now dry) fossil bones occur-elephas, megatherium, horse, etc.

The megatherium is described zoologically as having combined the characteristics of the armadillo, sloth, and ant-eater.

Several of the guests stared at me as they would at the remains of a megatherium.

The megatherium inhabited the plains of Uruguay.

We think, when we pronounce the word, of the prehistoric monsters: the mastodon, the mammoth, the ponderous megatherium.

The megatherium, the icthyosaurus have paced the earth with seven-league steps and hidden the day with cloud vast wings.

Where is the megatherium?

These are the molar teeth of the deinotherium; this femur must have belonged to the greatest of those beasts, the megatherium.

Huge elephantine forms, the mastodon, the hippopotamus, the tapir, antelopes of monstrous size, the megatherium, and the myledon-all ,forthe moment, in juxtaposition.

But how about the preëxisting germs or vital units of the mastodon, the megatherium, and other gigantic mammiferous quadrupeds of the Eocene period?

When Huysmans and Paul and myself are dead, it will be as impossible to write a naturalistic novel as to revive the megatherium.

Boohoop, boohoop!-yes ,sixtimes boohoop does that brazen megatherium blare out, vivid and distinct, above all the other sixty instruments in the orchestra.

Tell me about Cuvier's getting up a megatherium from a tooth, or Agassiz's drawing a portrait of an undiscovered fish from a single scale!

London is evidenced in every one of them, just as a megatherium is in each of its separate bones, even if they be small ones.