English translation of "xénarthre" - "armadillo, sloth, anteater"

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171 months ago

Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:	French > English
Subject:	Other
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	xénarthre
Context:	...je me revois, comme un xénarthre, ridiculement lent et maladroit...Guy holding newborn.

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171 months ago

E S Translations wrote:

armadillo, sloth, anteater

My comment:

I would think something like 'I can still see myself, like some kind of dinosaur, ridiculously slow and clumsy' or just a literal translation but xénarthre doesn't really work in English in this context, in my opinion

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171 months ago

wrote:

sloth would work IMO

171 months ago

wrote:

sloth would work IMO

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171 months ago

Cybelle wrote:

Xenarthra

My comment:

Xénarthre : Mammifère édenté américain semblable au paresseux, au tatou ou au fourmilier

The superorder Xenarthra is a group of placental mammals (infraclass Eutheria), extant today only in the Americas and represented by anteaters, tree sloths, and armadillos.

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