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Meanings of anteater in English
Nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata.
Small Australian marsupial having long snout and strong claws for feeding on termites; nearly extinct.
Toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding on ants and termites.
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Examples for "numbat"
Examples for "numbat"
1
What kind of social-insect-eating mammal is stranger than a numbat?
2
Just five years ago, the numbat - Western Australia's animal emblem - found itself on the edge of that pit.
3
Habitat loss along with rising temperatures are pushing many more -like the iconic koala, northern hairy-nosedwombat and the numbat -to the brink.
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A population 'explosion' of the good sort It is estimated the number of numbats in Dryandra has now increased to about 400.
5
Cameras reveal hundreds of predators Before European settlers arrived, numbats were widespread throughout southern Australia, from Western Australia to New South Wales.
Usage of anteater in English
1
The anteater can suck up water and be used as a watering can.
2
A sort of anteater called a tamandua uses the ex-burrow as a nursery.
3
Snuffy is Petra's stuffed anteater, which she sleeps with each night.
4
They've got the mug of an anteater and the spines of a porcupine.
5
Twin heads, each with a matching anteater proboscis, presumably once drills.
6
He had a fat anteater's tail, and a silly little Hercule Poirot moustache.
7
He hissed his imitation of a hunting fire cat and the anteater jumped, startled.
8
All I could think to say was: "Isn't that a kind of anteater?"
9
The anteater arrived with a broken left paw after a clash with a fierce porcupine.
10
An anteater arrived with a broken left paw after a clash with a fierce porcupine.
11
The creature's snout was long and curved like an anteater's-onlyanteaters don't have razor-sharpteeth.
12
The village is named after a type of anteater, a large mammal in danger of extinction.
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The pangolin is also called the scaly anteater.
14
At the end of the sixties no zoological garden contained a specimen of the South African anteater.
15
There, you'll find neither llama nor anteater.
16
Yes, it really did remind her of an anteater or an armadillo with that small, smooth head.
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