anteater

Noun anteater has 6 senses

• anteater(n = noun.animal) pangolin, scaly anteater - toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding on ants and termites;
is a kind of eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal
is a member of genus manis, manis

• anteater(n = noun.animal) new world anteater - any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites;
is a kind of edentate
is a member of family myrmecophagidae, myrmecophagidae
has particulars: ant bear, giant anteater, great anteater, myrmecophaga jubata, tamanoir, cyclopes didactylus, silky anteater, two-toed anteater, lesser anteater, tamandu, tamandua, tamandua tetradactyla

• anteater(n = noun.animal) aardvark, ant bear, orycteropus afer - nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata;
is a kind of eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal
is a member of genus orycteropus, orycteropus

• anteater(n = noun.animal) banded anteater, myrmecobius fasciatus, numbat - small Australian marsupial having long snout and strong claws for feeding on termites; nearly extinct;
is a kind of dasyurid, dasyurid marsupial
is a member of genus myrmecobius, myrmecobius

• anteater(n = noun.animal) echidna, spiny anteater - a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to New Guinea;
is a kind of egg-laying mammal, monotreme
is a member of genus zaglossus, zaglossus

• anteater(n = noun.animal) echidna, spiny anteater - a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to Australia;
is a kind of egg-laying mammal, monotreme
is a member of genus tachyglossus, tachyglossus