anteater
English Thesaurus
1. a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to Australia (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | egg-laying mammal, monotreme, |
| definition | : | the most primitive mammals comprising the only extant members of the subclass Prototheria (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | genus tachyglossus, tachyglossus, |
| definition | : | type genus of the family Tachyglossidae (noun.animal) |
2. a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to New Guinea (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | egg-laying mammal, monotreme, |
| definition | : | the most primitive mammals comprising the only extant members of the subclass Prototheria (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | genus zaglossus, zaglossus, |
| definition | : | a genus of Tachyglossidae (noun.animal) |
3. small Australian marsupial having long snout and strong claws for feeding on termites; nearly extinct (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | dasyurid, dasyurid marsupial, |
| definition | : | small carnivorous nocturnal marsupials of Australia and Tasmania (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | genus myrmecobius, myrmecobius, |
| definition | : | banded anteater (noun.animal) |
4. nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal, |
| definition | : | mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | genus orycteropus, orycteropus, |
| definition | : | coextensive with the family Orycteropodidae (noun.animal) |
5. any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | edentate, |
| definition | : | primitive terrestrial mammal with few if any teeth; of tropical Central America and South America (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | ant bear, giant anteater, great anteater, myrmecophaga jubata, tamanoir, |
| definition | : | large shaggy-haired toothless anteater with long tongue and powerful claws; of South America (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | cyclopes didactylus, silky anteater, two-toed anteater, |
| definition | : | squirrel-sized South American toothless anteater with long silky golden fur (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | lesser anteater, tamandu, tamandua, tamandua tetradactyla, |
| definition | : | small toothless anteater with prehensile tail and four-clawed forelimbs; of tropical South America and Central America (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | family myrmecophagidae, myrmecophagidae, |
| definition | : | New World anteaters (noun.animal) |
6. toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding on ants and termites (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal, |
| definition | : | mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | genus manis, manis, |
| definition | : | type genus of the Manidae (noun.animal) |
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