two-toed sloth

Questions about two-toed sloth

What does two-toed sloth mean?

two-toed sloth means "a sloth of Central America that has two long claws on each forefoot and three long claws on each hindfoot". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for two-toed sloth?

Close synonyms include unau, unai, Choloepus hoffmanni, unau, unai. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is two-toed sloth a common word?

two-toed sloth is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.