Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An animal that feeds upon ants: a name applied to several mammals and birds.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of several species of edentates and monotremes that feed upon ants. See
ant-bear ,pangolin ,aard-vark , andechidna .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling of
anteater .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata
- noun a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to Australia
- noun any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites
- noun a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to New Guinea
- noun toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding on ants and termites
- noun small Australian marsupial having long snout and strong claws for feeding on termites; nearly extinct
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Examples
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Angela Carter has her moments of mischief in the midst of the gothic, and so does Tanith Lee giant ant-eater, anyone?
Weirdly Funny 2010
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I'm rather of the opinion that the second to last pic looks like an ant-eater.
Why Beat a Dead Horse... Jen 2009
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It shelters rare and endangered species of flora and fauna, such as the giant otter and giant ant-eater.
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Spilett killed two kangaroos with bows and arrows, and also an animal which strongly resembled both a hedgehog and an ant-eater.
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Spilett killed two kangaroos with bows and arrows, and also an animal which strongly resembled both a hedgehog and an ant-eater.
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Fortunately the dogs had found, and Nuflo had succeeded in killing, a great ant-eater, so that we were well supplied with excellent, strength-giving flesh.
Green Mansions 2004
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The general way of catching them is to dig into the ant-hill, and wait till the builders come forth to repair the damage, then brush them off quickly into a vessel, as the ant-eater does into his mouth.
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We observed that, wherever an ant-eater had made his hole, shells were thrown out with the earth, identical with those now alive in the lake.
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He was a newspaper man from Kansas City, a lean, light-haired man with what Meredith called an adventurous nose; one could almost fancy it found its way by feeling its way and moved like the proboscis of an ant-eater.
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The hand had struck as straight as a striking snake; as instantaneous as the flick of the long tongue of an ant-eater.
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