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Meaning of "megathere" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD MEGATHERE

From New Latin megathērium, from mega- + -there, from Greek thērion wild beast.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF MEGATHERE

ˈmɛɡəˌθɪə


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MEGATHERE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Megathere is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MEGATHERE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Megatherium

Megatherium was a genus of elephant-sized ground sloths endemic to South America that lived from the late Pliocene through the end of the Pleistocene. Its size was exceeded by only a few other land mammals, including mammoths and Paraceratherium.

Definition of megathere in the English dictionary

The definition of megathere in the dictionary is any of various gigantic extinct American sloths of the genus Megatherium and related genera, common in late Cenozoic times.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MEGATHERE

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MEGATHERE

megasporangium · megaspore · megasporic · megasporophyll · megass · megasse · megastar · megastore · megastorm · megastructure · megatechnology · megatherian · megaton · megatonic · megatonnage · megavertebrate · megavitamin · megavolt · megawatt · megawatt hour

WORDS THAT END LIKE MEGATHERE

adhere · all there · anywhere · atmosphere · elsewhere · everywhere · hemisphere · here · here and there · look here · neither here nor there · nowhere · out there · so there · somewhere · sphere · then and there · there · this here · where

Synonyms and antonyms of megathere in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «megathere» into 25 languages

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The translations of megathere from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «megathere» in English.
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megathere
1,325 millions of speakers
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megaterio
570 millions of speakers
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megathere
380 millions of speakers
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megathere
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megathere
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Megathere
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megathere
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megathere
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megathere
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Megathere
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megathere
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megathere
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मेगाटरे
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megathere
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megaterio
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megathere
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megathere
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MEGATHERE»

Discover the use of megathere in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to megathere and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
The other fossils referred to are parts of a Megathere and Glyptodon. The 'four teeth' subsequently received by Mr. LETTsoM and transmitted to the British Museum (Plate LXII. figs. 1-8) present a character of the grinding-surface having a ...
‎1870
2
The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of ...
In the Megathere the sacral vertebrae are only four in number, and are not anchylosed, and the spinous processes are comparatively small, not locked together, as in the Armadillos, but separated by intervals as in the Sloths. In the Armadillos ...
Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 1839
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The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of ...
weight In the Megathere the sacral vertebrae are only four in number, and are not anchylosed, and the spinous processes are comparatively small, not locked together, as in the Armadillos, but separated by intervals as in the Sloths.
‎1839
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The London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine and Journal ...
In no species of Armadillo is the ilium expanded, while in the Megathere it is greatly developed, resembling that of the Elephant in size, form, and position ; and among the Edentata. the nearest approach in this portion of the skeleton is to be ...
David Brewster, Richard Phillips, Richard Taylor, 1839
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Proceedings of the Geological Society of London
In the Megathere the sacral vertebrae are only four in number, and are not anchylosed, and the spinous processes are comparatively small, not locked together, as in the Armadillos, but separated by intervals as in the Sloths. In the Armadillos ...
‎1842
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The penny cyclopædia [ed. by G. Long].
In the Megathere the sacral vertebra) are only four in number, and are not anchylosed, and the spinous processes are comparatively small, not locked together, as in the Armadillos, but separated by intervals as in the Sloths. In the Armadillos ...
Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge, George Long, 1839
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The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of ...
In the Megathere the sacral vertebra; are only four in number, and are not anchylosed, and the spinous processes are comparatively small, not locked together, as in the Armadillos, but separated by intervals as in the Sloths. In the Armadillos ...
George Long, 1839
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Philosophical Magazine
In no species of Armadillo is the ilium expanded, while in the Megathere it is greatly developed, resembling that of the Elephant in size, form, and position ; and among the Edentata the nearest approach in this portion of the skeleton is to be ...
‎1839
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Proceedings
In the Megathere the sacral vertebrae are only four in number, and are not anchylosed, and the spinous processes are comparatively small, not locked together, as in the Armadillos, but separated by intervals as in the Sloths. In the Armadillos ...
‎1842
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The London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine and Journal ...
In no species of Armadillo is the ilium expanded, while in the Megathere it is greatly developed, resembling that of the Elephant in size, form, and position ; and among the Edentata the nearest approach in this portion of the skeleton is to be ...
‎1839
REFERENCE
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