Definition of Anteater

Noun

  • a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites
    native to Australia
    - spiny anteater
  • a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites
    native to New Guinea
    - spiny anteater
  • small Australian marsupial having long snout and strong claws for feeding on termites
    nearly extinct
    - banded anteater - myrmecobius fasciatus
  • nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites
    sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata
    - ant bear - orycteropus afer
  • any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites
    - new world 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
    - scaly anteater
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Unscramble anteater

135 unscramble word found using the letters anteater.
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