SLOTH
\slˈɒθ], \slˈɒθ], \s_l_ˈɒ_θ]\
Definitions of SLOTH
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a disinclination to work or exert yourself
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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
By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Any one of several species of arboreal edentates constituting the family Bradypodidae, and the suborder Tardigrada. They have long exserted limbs and long prehensile claws. Both jaws are furnished with teeth (see Illust. of Edentata), and the ears and tail are rudimentary. They inhabit South and Central America and Mexico.
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To be idle.
By Oddity Software
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Any one of several species of arboreal edentates constituting the family Bradypodidae, and the suborder Tardigrada. They have long exserted limbs and long prehensile claws. Both jaws are furnished with teeth (see Illust. of Edentata), and the ears and tail are rudimentary. They inhabit South and Central America and Mexico.
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To be idle.
By Noah Webster.
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Slow-moving exclusively arboreal mammals that inhabit the tropical forests of South and Central America.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Idleness; laziness; indolence; a certain animal of South and Central America, so called from its slow movements.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Tardiness; sluggishness; laziness; an edentate quadruped of S. America, of two species, living and feeding on trees, so called from its alow, awkward movement on the ground.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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