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- noun A legendary red-furred ground-dwelling
sloth -like creature said to live in theAmazon rainforests ofBrazil andBolivia .
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But the mere mention of the mapinguary, the giant slothlike monster of the Amazon, is enough to send shivers down the spines of almost all who dwell in the world’s largest rain forest.
Archive 2007-07-08 Bill Crider 2007
qms commented on the word mapinguary
A sloth on the hunt cannot hurry
And stinks to alert its shy quarry,
So silence and guile
And slow food's the style
For the patient but foul mapinguary.
December 22, 2015