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.
- synonyms: pangolin, scaly anteater
- Any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites.
- synonyms: New World anteater
- Nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata.
- synonyms: aardvark, ant bear, Orycteropus afer
- Small Australian marsupial having long snout and strong claws for feeding on termites; nearly extinct.
- synonyms: numbat, banded anteater, Myrmecobius fasciatus
- A burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to New Guinea.
- synonyms: echidna, spiny anteater
- A burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to Australia.
- synonyms: echidna, spiny anteater
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