ant bear

noun

1. large shaggy-haired toothless anteater with long tongue and powerful claws; of South America

• Syn: ↑giant anteater, ↑great anteater, ↑tamanoir, ↑Myrmecophaga jubata

• Hypernyms: ↑anteater, ↑New World anteater

• Member Holonyms: ↑Myrmecophaga, ↑genus Myrmecophaga

2. nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata

• Syn: ↑aardvark, ↑anteater, ↑Orycteropus afer

• Hypernyms: ↑placental, ↑placental mammal, ↑eutherian, ↑eutherian mammal

• Member Holonyms: ↑Orycteropus, ↑genus Orycteropus

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noun

1. : a So. American mammal (Myrmecophaga jubata) of the order Edentata that is about four feet in length exclusive of the long tail, has long shaggy gray fur with a black breast band and white stripe on the shoulder, and is toothless but has a long slender tongue with which it licks up ants and powerful claws with which it tears up logs and anthills — called also great anteater, tamanoir; see anteater

2. : aardvark

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aardvark.

[1545-55]

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ant bear,

1. a large South American anteater having long front claws, a very slender head, a shaggy, gray coat marked with a black band on the chest, and a large, bushy tail; great anteater.

2. = aardvark. (Cf. ↑aardvark)

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n.

1) another term for aardvark

2) another term for (see anteater)