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anteater: Meaning and Definition of

ant•eat•er

Pronunciation: (ant'ē"tur), [key]
— n.
  1. any of several mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae, having a long, tapered snout, extensile tongue, and powerful front claws and feeding chiefly on ants and termites. Cf. giant anteater, silky anteater, tamandua.
  2. the aardvark.
  3. a pangolin.
  4. an echidna.
  5. See
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
See also:
ante antebellum
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