These claws actually gave Moropus its name: " slow " or " sloth foot ".

But the articulation of the phalangeal ( finger ) bones, in addition to probable large foot and toe pads, shows that Moropus probably could raise the claws slightly to enable it to move about quite smoothly.

Moropus is related to the modern horse, rhino, and tapir.

Its type is Moropus distans.

* Agate Springs Quarries, Sioux County, Nebraska, a deposit of Miocene herbivores and carnivores such as Moropus elatus, Cynelos, Cephalogale, and a number of Artiodactyla.

Moropus stood about tall at the shoulder.

This name implies that because of the claws, Moropus was a clumsy mover.

It was named by Leidy ( 1873 ) and recombined as Moropus oregonensis by Holland and Peterson ( 1914 ) and M. C. Coombs in 1978 and 1998, and also by M. C. Coombs, R. M. Hunt, E. Stepleton, L. B. Albright, III, and T. J. Fremd.

This is done at varying speeds, ranging from the slow and fast Shifte Telli ( a musical term meaning double strings ) to the fastest, ecstatic Karshilama ( meaning greetings or welcome ).

Track riders are still able to slow down because all track bicycles are fixed-gear, meaning that there is no freewheel.

In the later 19th century it took on the meaning of a slow form of popular love song and the term is now often used as synonymous with any love song, particularly the pop or rock power ballad.

The term is normally used on routes with a mixture of fast and slow services, and can differ in meaning depending on how it is used by different transit agencies.

By the human perspective, resources are non-renewable when their rate of consumption exceeds the rate of replenishment / recovery ; a good example of this are fossil fuels, which are in this category because their rate of formation is extremely slow ( potentially millions of years ), meaning they are considered non-renewable.

The peptide bonds in proteins are metastable, meaning that in the presence of water they will break spontaneously, releasing 8 – 16 kilojoule / mol ( 2 – 4 kcal / mol ) of free energy, but this process is extremely slow.

The phrase was in existence for decades earlier, but meaning slow mail as opposed to meaning human delivered mail.

The name Lasne comes from the Celtic word meaning flat or calm, presumably referring to the slow moving river.

In viticulture, the two main components in growing Riesling grapes are to keep it " Long & Low " meaning that the ideal situation for Riesling is a climate that allows for a long, slow ripening and proper pruning to keep the yield low and the flavour concentrated.

In approximately 1590, the word began appearing in the English language as booby, meaning " stupid person, slow bird ".

Spontaneously breaking of a continuous symmetry is inevitably accompanied by gapless ( meaning that these modes do not cost any energy to excite ) Nambu-Goldstone modes associated with slow long-wavelength fluctuations of the order-parameter.

Spacers slow down the speed of the aerosol coming from the inhaler, meaning that less of the asthma drug impacts on the back of the mouth and somewhat more may get into the lungs.

In this form of dyskinesia, the involuntary movements are tardive, meaning they have a slow or belated onset.

The word derives from the ancient greek words " bradus ", meaning slow, and " sism " meaning movement, and was coined by Arturo Issel in 1883.

Other possibilities are " slow moving ", or " flowing " although the precise meaning is uncertain.

The slow version of the dance is called χασάπικο βαρύ ( hasapiko vary ) or χασάπικος βαρύς ( hasapikos varys ), from Greek βαρύ-( vary-in Modern Greek / bary-in Classical Greek ) meaning " heavy ," and generally employs a 4 / 4 tempo.

A possible reason for this is that AVE services slow down to 200 km / h for the Sierra Morena section of the journey, because of the tight curves, and 250 km / h for the Córdoba-Seville section, possibly on account of medium-speed services running on the line, meaning that they have an easy means of recovering lost time if held up earlier in the journey.

Final drive ratios of 4: 1 were common, meaning that the wheels would turn four times as slow as the engine if they were directly connected.

Socially, by virtue of her father's ancestry, she was born a yeoman — meaning that she is a descendant of paying settlers of the second wave of settlement of the Star Kingdom of Manticore, not a member of the nobility — who for the most part can claim descent from the first colonists who invested in the joint venture purchasing settlement rights to the new system and who subsequently underwrote the migration of that first wave of colonists in slow ships to Manticore.

The generic name is derived from Latin segnis meaning ' slow ' or ' sluggish ' and Greek sauros meaning ' lizard ', in reference to the stocky build of the hindlimbs.

It is a compound word meaning big slow moving thing.

Lagopus is derived from Ancient Greek lago ( λαγως ), meaning " hare ", + pous ( πους ), " foot " and refers to the hair on its feet.

An animal or machine that usually moves in a bipedal manner is known as a biped (), meaning " two feet " ( from the Latin bi for " two " and ped for " foot ").

Traditionally called Rigil Kentaurus or Toliman, meaning " foot of the centaur ", the system has an overall magnitude of-0. 28 and is 4. 4 light-years from Earth.

( To make the confusion even greater, where Knecht in German received a military meaning — in " Landsknecht "— it denoted foot soldiers rather than cavalry ).

A kangaroo () is a marsupial from the family Macropodidae ( macropods, meaning ' large foot ').

The name Piedmont comes from medieval Latin Pedemontium or Pedemontis, i. e., ad pedem montium, meaning “ at the foot of the mountains ” ( attested in documents of the end of the 13th century ).

An animal or machine that usually moves in a quadrupedal manner is known as a quadruped, meaning " four feet " ( from the Latin quad for " four " and ped for " foot ").

The Arabic Tell el-Semak ( or Tell es-Samak, meaning " mound of the fish ") preserved and transformed this ancient name, with locals using it to refer to a coastal tell at the foot of the Carmel Mountains that contains its remains.

The French and British had gained approximately six miles in depth ( to the foot of the Butte de Warlencourt and beyond Geuedecourt ) and lost about 419, 654 British and 202, 567 French casualties against 465, 181 German, meaning that a centimetre cost about two men.

Oedipus ( or ; Oidípous meaning " swollen foot ") was a mythical Greek king of Thebes.

The malleus gets its name from Latin malleus, meaning " hammer ", the Incus gets its name from Latin Incus meaning " anvil " from incudere meaning " to forge with a hammer ", and the Stapes gets its name from Modern Latin " stirrup ," probably an alteration of Late Latin Stapia related to stare " to stand " and pedem, an accusative of pes " foot ", so called because the bone is shaped like a stirrup-this was an invented Modern Latin word for " stirrup ," for which there was no classical Latin word, as the ancients did not use stirrups.

One derivation is that it derives from Old French patoier meaning " to gesticulate, handle clumsily, to paw ", from pate " paw ", from Low Franconian * patta " paw, sole of the foot " +-ois, a linguistic suffix similar to English-ish /- ese.

Thus, for example, the word " kartṛi ", meaning " agent " or " doer ", does not contain, contrary to intuitive English prosodic principles, simply two syllabic units, but contains rather, in order, a " deergh " / " guru "/ " heavy " foot and a " laghu " / " light " foot.

The foot is a purely metrical unit ; there is no inherent relation to a word or phrase as a unit of meaning or syntax, though the interplay among these is an aspect of the individual poet's skill and artistry.

The genus name of this species — Podiceps — comes from two Latin words: podicis, meaning " vent " or " anus " and pes meaning " foot ".

Nowadays, there is an erroneous local legend that the name of the river comes from an Indian phrase meaning " mile wide, foot deep ".

The legislation did not immediately end slavery in the colony, but it did prevent the importation of slaves, meaning that any U. S. slave who set foot in what would eventually become Ontario, was free.

The name impala comes from the Zulu language meaning " gazelle ", while the scientific name comes from Greek αιπος aipos " high ", κερος ceros " horn " + melas " black " pous " foot ".

Tylopoda ( meaning " swollen foot ") is a suborder of terrestrial herbivorous even-toed ungulates belonging to the order Artiodactyla.

Lagopus is derived from Ancient Greek lago ( λαγως ), meaning " hare ", and pous ( πους ), meaning " foot ".