THREE-TOED SLOTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does three-toed sloth mean? 

• THREE-TOED SLOTH (noun)
  The noun THREE-TOED SLOTH has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: THREE-TOED SLOTH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THREE-TOED SLOTH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

ai; Bradypus tridactylus; three-toed sloth

Hypernyms ("three-toed sloth" is a kind of...):

sloth; tree sloth (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)

Holonyms ("three-toed sloth" is a member of...):

Bradypus; genus Bradypus (type genus of the Bradypodidae: three-toed sloths)

 Context examples 

The scientists measured the daily energy expenditure of both two- and three-toed sloths, animals that co-exist in the tropical forest canopies of Central and South America.

(Putting the sloth in sloths: Arboreal lifestyle drives slow pace, NSF)

Astonishingly, three-toed sloths, which are more specialized to their environment, expend as little as 460 kilojoules of energy a day, the equivalent of burning a mere 110 calories — roughly the same number of calories in a baked potato.

(Putting the sloth in sloths: Arboreal lifestyle drives slow pace, NSF)