sloth

n. laziness, aversion to work or strenuous activity; slow-moving tree-dwelling mammal native to South and Central America

Sloths are medium-sized mammals that live in Central and South America belonging to the families Megalonychidae and Bradypodidae, part of the order Pilosa. Most scientists call these two families the Folivora suborder, while some call it Phyllophaga.Sloths are omnivores. They may eat insects, small lizards and carrion, but their diet consists mostly of buds, tender shoots, and leaves.Sloths have made extraordinary adaptations to an arboreal browsing lifestyle. Leaves, their main food source, provide very little energy or nutrition and do not digest easily: sloths have very large, specialized, slow-acting stomachs with multiple compartments in which symbiotic bacteria break down the tough leaves.
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Noun
1. a disinclination to work or exert yourself
(synonym) slothfulness
(hypernym) reluctance, hesitancy, hesitation, disinclination, indisposition
2. 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
(synonym) tree sloth
(hypernym) edentate
(hyponym) three-toed sloth, ai, Bradypus tridactylus
(member-holonym) Bradypodidae, family Bradypodidae
3. apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins)
(synonym) laziness, acedia
(hypernym) mortal sin, deadly sin

(v. i.)
To be idle.
  

(n.)
Slowness; tardiness.
  

(n.)
Disinclination to action or labor; sluggishness; laziness; idleness.
  

(n.)
Any one of several species of arboreal edentates constituting the family Bradypodidae, and the suborder Tardigrada. They have long exserted limbs and long prehensile claws. Both jaws are furnished with teeth (see Illust. of Edentata), and the ears and tail are rudimentary. They inhabit South and Central America and Mexico.
  

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