Hypertext Webster Gateway: "anteater"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Ant-eater \Ant"-eat`er\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
One of several species of edentates and monotremes that feed
upon ants. See {Ant-bear}, {Pangolin}, {Aard-vark}, and
{Echidna}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
anteater
n 1: toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body
covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding
on ants and termites [syn: {pangolin}, {scaly anteater}]
2: any of several tropical American mammals of the family
Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and
termites [syn: {New World anteater}]
3: nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that
feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order
Tubulidentata [syn: {aardvark}, {ant bear}, {Orycteropus
afer}]
4: small Australian marsupial having long snout and strong
claws for feeding on termites; nearly extinct [syn: {numbat},
{banded anteater}, {Myrmecobius fasciatus}]
5: New Guinea echidnas [syn: {echidna}, {spiny anteater}]
6: burrowing spine-covered monotreme of Australia having a long
snout and claws for hunting ants and termites [syn: {echidna},
{spiny anteater}]
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