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ANTEATER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to Australia
Synonyms:
anteater; echidna; spiny anteater
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("anteater" is a kind of...):
egg-laying mammal; monotreme (the most primitive mammals comprising the only extant members of the subclass Prototheria)
Holonyms ("anteater" is a member of...):
genus Tachyglossus; Tachyglossus (type genus of the family Tachyglossidae)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to New Guinea
Synonyms:
anteater; echidna; spiny anteater
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("anteater" is a kind of...):
egg-laying mammal; monotreme (the most primitive mammals comprising the only extant members of the subclass Prototheria)
Holonyms ("anteater" is a member of...):
genus Zaglossus; Zaglossus (a genus of Tachyglossidae)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Small Australian marsupial having long snout and strong claws for feeding on termites; nearly extinct
Synonyms:
anteater; banded anteater; Myrmecobius fasciatus; numbat
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("anteater" is a kind of...):
dasyurid; dasyurid marsupial (small carnivorous nocturnal marsupials of Australia and Tasmania)
Holonyms ("anteater" is a member of...):
genus Myrmecobius; Myrmecobius (banded anteater)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata
Synonyms:
aardvark; ant bear; anteater; Orycteropus afer
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("anteater" is a kind of...):
eutherian; eutherian mammal; placental; placental mammal (mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)
Holonyms ("anteater" is a member of...):
genus Orycteropus; Orycteropus (coextensive with the family Orycteropodidae)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites
Synonyms:
anteater; New World anteater
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("anteater" is a kind of...):
edentate (primitive terrestrial mammal with few if any teeth; of tropical Central America and South America)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "anteater"):
ant bear; giant anteater; great anteater; Myrmecophaga jubata; tamanoir (large shaggy-haired toothless anteater with long tongue and powerful claws; of South America)
Cyclopes didactylus; silky anteater; two-toed anteater (squirrel-sized South American toothless anteater with long silky golden fur)
lesser anteater; tamandu; tamandua; Tamandua tetradactyla (small toothless anteater with prehensile tail and four-clawed forelimbs; of tropical South America and Central America)
Holonyms ("anteater" is a member of...):
family Myrmecophagidae; Myrmecophagidae (New World anteaters)
Sense 6
Meaning:
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:
anteater; pangolin; scaly anteater
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("anteater" is a kind of...):
eutherian; eutherian mammal; placental; placental mammal (mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)
Holonyms ("anteater" is a member of...):
genus Manis; Manis (type genus of the Manidae)
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