ANTEATER as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • burrowing spine-covered monotreme of Australia having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites
   
   Synonym(s)
   • echidna (what does echidna mean?)
   • spiny anteater (what does spiny anteater mean?)
   
   Hypernyms(s) anteater is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • monotreme (what does monotreme mean?)
   • egg-laying mammal (what does egg-laying mammal mean?)
2. Meaning
   • New Guinea echidnas
   
   Synonym(s)
   • echidna (what does echidna mean?)
   • spiny anteater (what does spiny anteater mean?)
   
   Hypernyms(s) anteater is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • monotreme (what does monotreme mean?)
   • egg-laying mammal (what does egg-laying mammal mean?)
3. Meaning
   • small Australian marsupial having long snout and strong claws for feeding on termites
   • nearly extinct
   
   Synonym(s)
   • banded anteater (what does banded anteater mean?)
   • Myrmecobius fasciatus (what does Myrmecobius fasciatus mean?)
   • numbat (what does numbat mean?)
   
   Hypernyms(s) anteater is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • dasyurid marsupial (what does dasyurid marsupial mean?)
   • dasyurid (what does dasyurid mean?)
4. Meaning
   • nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites
   • sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata
   
   Synonym(s)
   • aardvark (what does aardvark mean?)
   • ant bear (what does ant bear mean?)
   • Orycteropus afer (what does Orycteropus afer mean?)
   
   Hypernyms(s) anteater is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • placental (what does placental mean?)
   • placental mammal (what does placental mammal mean?)
   • eutherian (what does eutherian mean?)
   • eutherian mammal (what does eutherian mammal mean?)
5. Meaning
   • any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites
   
   Synonym(s)
   • New World anteater (what does New World anteater mean?)
   
   Hypernyms(s) anteater is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • edentate (what does edentate mean?)
   
   Hyponym(s)
   • ant bear (what does ant bear mean?)
   • giant anteater (what does giant anteater mean?)
   • great anteater (what does great anteater mean?)
   • tamanoir (what does tamanoir mean?)
   • Myrmecophaga jubata (what does Myrmecophaga jubata mean?)
   • silky anteater (what does silky anteater mean?)
   • two-toed anteater (what does two-toed anteater mean?)
   • Cyclopes didactylus (what does Cyclopes didactylus mean?)
   • tamandua (what does tamandua mean?)
   • tamandu (what does tamandu mean?)
   • lesser anteater (what does lesser anteater mean?)
   • Tamandua tetradactyla (what does Tamandua tetradactyla mean?)
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
   
   Synonym(s)
   • pangolin (what does pangolin mean?)
   • scaly anteater (what does scaly anteater mean?)
   
   Hypernyms(s) anteater is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • placental (what does placental mean?)
   • placental mammal (what does placental mammal mean?)
   • eutherian (what does eutherian mean?)
   • eutherian mammal (what does eutherian mammal mean?)