anteater

Meanings

Plural: anteaters

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
• any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites
• nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata
• small Australian marsupial having long snout and strong claws for feeding on termites; nearly extinct
• a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to New Guinea
• a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to Australia
• Any of several animals of South and Central America, in the suborder Vermilingua, which are noted for eating ants and termites which they catch with their long sticky tongues, including giant anteater and lesser anteater (also known as collared anteater).
• Any of some other not closely related species that feed with ants, including pangolin (scaly anteater), echidna (spiny anteater), aardvark (African anteater) and numbat (banded anteater).
• An uncircumcised penis.

Synonyms

aardvark, ant bear, banded anteater, echidna, Myrmecobius fasciatus, New World anteater, numbat, Orycteropus afer, pangolin, scaly anteater, spiny anteater