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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
--1 is a kind of placental, placental mammal, eutherian, eutherian mammal
--1 is a member of Manis, genus Manis
- 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:
- 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
- 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
- echidna, spiny anteater, anteater - New Guinea echidnas
--5 is a kind of monotreme, egg-laying mammal
--5 is a member of Zaglossus, genus Zaglossus
- 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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