mylodon

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun mylodon has 1 sense

mylodon(n = noun.animal) Array - large (bear-sized) extinct edentate mammal of the Pleistocene in South America; Array

is a kind of

edentate

is a member of genus mylodon

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CIDE DICTIONARY

mylodon, n. [Gr. a mill + 'odoy`s, 'odo`ntos, a tooth.].

An extinct genus of large slothlike American edentates, allied to Megatherium. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

mylodon, n. an extinct gigantic ground sloth of the genus Mylodon, with cylindrical teeth and found in deposits formed during the ice age of the Pleistocene epoch in South America.

Etymology

mod.L f. Gk mule mill, molar + odous odontos tooth