anteater   (TTS Sound)

The noun anteater has 6 senses

• pangolin, scaly anteater, anteater -- (toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding on ants and termites)


• anteater, New World anteater -- (any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites)


• aardvark, ant bear, anteater, Orycteropus afer -- (nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata)


• numbat, banded anteater, anteater, Myrmecobius fasciatus -- (small Australian marsupial having long snout and strong claws for feeding on termites; nearly extinct)


• echidna, spiny anteater, anteater -- (a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to New Guinea)


• echidna, spiny anteater, anteater -- (a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to Australia)