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Anteater   /ˈæntˌitər/   Listen
Anteater

noun
1.
Toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding on ants and termites.  Synonyms: pangolin, scaly anteater.
2.
Any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites.  Synonym: New World anteater.
3.
Nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata.  Synonyms: aardvark, ant bear, Orycteropus afer.
4.
Small Australian marsupial having long snout and strong claws for feeding on termites; nearly extinct.  Synonyms: banded anteater, Myrmecobius fasciatus, numbat.
5.
A burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to New Guinea.  Synonyms: echidna, spiny anteater.
6.
A burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to Australia.  Synonyms: echidna, spiny anteater.



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"Anteater" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Vulpine Phalanger, and purchased of the Zoological Society the Sloths and Ant-eaters which during that period died in their Gardens. These he carefully dissected, and he leaves among his papers a series of incomplete notes (fullest as concerning the Phalanger and Cape Anteater [Orycteropus] ([I was privileged to assist in the dissection of the latter animal, and well do I remember how, when by means of a blow-pipe he had inflated the bladder, intent on determining its limit of distensibility, ...
— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 3 • Leonard Huxley


Words linked to "Anteater" :   Cyclopes didactylus, tamanoir, Myrmecobius, Orycteropus, genus Myrmecobius, lesser anteater, genus Zaglossus, dasyurid, monotreme, dasyurid marsupial, placental, Zaglossus, eutherian, genus Orycteropus, Tachyglossus, eutherian mammal, Myrmecophaga jubata, placental mammal, tamandu, family Myrmecophagidae, Tamandua tetradactyla, genus Manis, tamandua, egg-laying mammal, genus Tachyglossus, edentate, Myrmecophagidae, Manis


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