Noun anteater has 6 senses
  1. 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
    --1 is a kind of placental, placental mammal, eutherian, eutherian mammal
    --1 is a member of Manis, genus Manis
  2. anteater, New World anteater - any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites
    --2 is a kind of edentate
    --2 is a member of Myrmecophagidae, family Myrmecophagidae
    --2 has particulars:
     ant bear, giant anteater, great anteater, tamanoir, Myrmecophaga jubata; silky anteater, two-toed anteater, Cyclopes didactylus; tamandua, tamandu, lesser anteater, Tamandua tetradactyla
  3. 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
    --3 is a kind of placental, placental mammal, eutherian, eutherian mammal
    --3 is a member of Orycteropus, genus Orycteropus
  4. numbat, banded anteater, anteater, Myrmecobius fasciatus - small Australian marsupial having long snout and strong claws for feeding on termites; nearly extinct
    --4 is a kind of dasyurid marsupial, dasyurid
    --4 is a member of Myrmecobius, genus Myrmecobius
  5. echidna, spiny anteater, anteater - New Guinea echidnas
    --5 is a kind of monotreme, egg-laying mammal
    --5 is a member of Zaglossus, genus Zaglossus
  6. echidna, spiny anteater, anteater - burrowing spine-covered monotreme of Australia having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites
    --6 is a kind of monotreme, egg-laying mammal
    --6 is a member of Tachyglossus, genus Tachyglossus
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