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anteater

[ US /ˈænˌtitɝ/ ]
[ UK /ˈæntiːtɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites
  2. nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata
  3. a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to New Guinea
  4. small Australian marsupial having long snout and strong claws for feeding on termites; nearly extinct
  5. a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to Australia
  6. toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding on ants and termites

How To Use anteater In A Sentence

  • Docile and inoffensive by nature, the anteater's principal enemies are the puma and the jaguar.
  • The Anteaters led the Big West in turnover margin (plus-1. 91), ranked second in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.1) and defended fairly well, ranking fourth in defense at 60.6 points per game. Big West Conference
  • Most placental mammals have teeth that are capped with enamel, but there are also lineages without teeth, such as anteaters, pangolins and baleen whales, or with enamelless teeth, such as armadillos, sloths, aardvarks and pygmy and sperm whales. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
  • An adult anteater can eat as many as 30,000 ants or termites in a single day
  • The numbat (Myrmecobius fasciatus, VU) is a marsupial 'anteater' that is the only member of its entire family. Biological diversity in Southwest Australia
  • the lesser anteater
  • In wild areas, they hunt the tapir (a kind of wild hog), the anteater, and the jaguar, as well as the agouti (a rabbit-like rodent).
  • Everything about anteaters is fascinating: their ecology, behaviour, anatomy, functional morphology and evolution. Archive 2006-05-01
  • Everything from saber-toothed carnivores and wolves to flying squirrels and anteaters were produced independently.
  • In the echidna, anteaters, and pangolins, there are qualitative differences in tongue construction.
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