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Meanings of three-toed sloth in English

Russian
bradypodidae
Portuguese
preguiça-de-três-dedos
Spanish
bradypus
Catalan
bradypus
Wikidata

Genus of mammals.

        Related terms
        bradypodidae

        A sloth that has three long claws on each forefoot and each hindfoot.

              Synonyms
              Examples for "bradypus"
              Examples for "bradypus"
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              The latter was of the kind called by Cuvier Bradypus tridactylus, which is clothed with shaggy grey hair.
              The Naturalist on the River Amazons
              Usage of three-toed sloth in English
              1
              Here I had a fine opportunity once more of examining the three-toed sloth.
              Wanderings in South America
              2
              Camera is slower than a three-toed sloth to respond.
              Wired
              3
              I finally unpick my T-shirt and climb after my sister, swift as a three-toed sloth with vertigo.
              Number9Dream
              4
              This was an ai, or three-toed sloth.
              Wanderings in South America
              5
              But, he says: I've got more in common with a three-toed sloth than I have with Winston Churchill.
              The Guardian
              6
              Its cry is low and plaintive, resembling the sound of "ai." Hence the three-toed sloth has obtained the name of the ai.
              The Western World / Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural H...
              7
              Some three-toed sloths may carry over 120 moths on their bodies.
              BBC
              8
              They are three-toed sloths, and I am Ami's golden tamarin, small and swift and untouchable.
              Origin
              9
              To study tapirs and three-toed sloths.
              Origin
              10
              "I really want to see a three-toed sloth," she said.
              Gutshot straight
              11
              Some three-toed sloths may carry over 120 moths One study found 980 scarab beetles living in the fur of a single sloth.
              BBC