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TAMANDUA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small toothless anteater with prehensile tail and four-clawed forelimbs; of tropical South America and Central America
Synonyms:
lesser anteater; tamandu; tamandua; Tamandua tetradactyla
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("tamandua" is a kind of...):
anteater; New World anteater (any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites)
Holonyms ("tamandua" is a member of...):
genus Tamandua (lesser anteater)