LESSER ANTEATER

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Meaning:

Small toothless anteater with prehensile tail and four-clawed forelimbs; of tropical South America and Central America

Synonyms:

lesser anteater; tamandu; tamandua; Tamandua tetradactyla

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("lesser anteater" is a kind of...):

anteater; New World anteater (any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites)

Holonyms ("lesser anteater" is a member of...):

genus Tamandua (lesser anteater)

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