an extinct giant ground sloth found in Pleistocene ice age deposits in South America. It died out only 11,000 years ago 磨齿兽(发现于南美洲更新世冰期的一种大型地懒,灭绝于11,000年前)
Genus Glossotherium (formerly Mylodon), family Mylodontidae 舌懒兽属(原称磨齿兽属),磨齿兽科
语源
mid 19th cent.: modern Latin, from Greek mulē 'mill, molar' + odous, odont- 'tooth'