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About ANTEATERS
ANTEATERS is a valid word in the official Scrabble dictionary (US), the UK Scrabble Dictionary and Words with Friends (ENABLE).
Definitions
noun
- toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding on ants and termites
- any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites
- nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata
- small Australian marsupial having long snout and strong claws for feeding on termites; nearly extinct
- a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to New Guinea
- a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to Australia
Synonyms
Also: scaly anteater, new world anteater, ant bear, orycteropus afer, banded anteater, myrmecobius fasciatus, spiny anteater.