NOUN | animal | ant bear, giant anteater, great anteater, tamanoir, Myrmecophaga jubata | large shaggy-haired toothless anteater with long tongue and powerful claws |
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animal | ant bear, aardvark, anteater, Orycteropus afer | nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites |
Meaning | large shaggy-haired toothless anteater with long tongue and powerful claws; of South America. | |
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Synonyms | giant anteater, great anteater, tamanoir, Myrmecophaga jubata | |
Member of | Myrmecophaga, genus Myrmecophaga | type genus of the Myrmecophagidae |
Broader | anteater, New World anteater | Any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack / lack teeth and feed on ants and termites |
Spanish | oso hormiguero gigante, tamanoir |
Meaning | nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata. | |
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Synonyms | aardvark, anteater, Orycteropus afer | |
Member of | Orycteropus, genus Orycteropus | coextensive with the family Orycteropodidae |
Broader | placental, placental mammal, eutherian, eutherian mammal | mammals having a placenta |
Spanish | cerdo hormiguero, oricteropo, orycteropus afer, Orycteropus Afer, oso hormiguero | |
Catalan | orycteropus afer, Orycteropus afer, ós formiguer, porc formiguer |
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