Meanings of tamanoir in anglès

When attacking an ant-castle, the tamanoir strikes a hole in the wall of clay with his powerful, crooked claws.

This thrust-and-parry game continued for some minutes, and might have lasted longer, had it not been for the young tamanoir.

The tamanoir of Buffon is called uaraca by the Indians; it is irascible and courageous, which is extraordinary in an animal without teeth.

Just at this moment the tamanoir, having turned round to address some conversation to her young companion, espied him, and sprang to her feet.

The chief creature engaged in that work is this most extraordinary denizen of the forest-theant-bear ,orgreat ant-eater(Myrmecophaga jubata), called also the tamanoir.

The missionaries call them osso carnicero, to distinguish them from the osso palmero or tamanoir (Myrmecophaga jubata), and from the osso hormigero, or anteater (tamandua).