Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun ant_bear

2 senses of ant bear

Sense 1
ant bear, giant anteater, great anteater, tamanoir, Myrmecophaga jubata -- (large shaggy-haired toothless anteater with long tongue and powerful claws; of South America)
       => anteater, New World anteater -- (any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites)

Sense 2
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)
       => placental, placental mammal, eutherian, eutherian mammal -- (mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)