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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:

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 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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