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

6 senses of anteater

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

Sense 2
anteater, New World anteater -- (any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites)
       => edentate -- (primitive terrestrial mammal with few if any teeth; of tropical Central America and South America)

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

Sense 4
numbat, banded anteater, anteater, Myrmecobius fasciatus -- (small Australian marsupial having long snout and strong claws for feeding on termites; nearly extinct)
       => dasyurid marsupial, dasyurid -- (small carnivorous nocturnal marsupials of Australia and Tasmania)

Sense 5
echidna, spiny anteater, anteater -- (a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to New Guinea)
       => monotreme, egg-laying mammal -- (the most primitive mammals comprising the only extant members of the subclass Prototheria)

Sense 6
echidna, spiny anteater, anteater -- (a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to Australia)
       => monotreme, egg-laying mammal -- (the most primitive mammals comprising the only extant members of the subclass Prototheria)