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Meanings of tamanoir in English
Portuguese
tamanduá-bandeira Large shaggy-haired toothless anteater with long tongue and powerful claws; of South America.
Synonyms
Examples for "ant bear"
Examples for "ant bear"
1
Then the ants bore into my eyes and I black out.
2
The kid watched a small caravan of ants bearing off among the arches of sheepribs.
1
The final object in the wooden bowl, by far the largest, looked like a giant anteater with six legs.
2
The warriors were carrying the giant anteater figurine and Scarface had a sharpened branch and a miniature club in its forelegs.
3
This was not like the previously-reported fights between giant anteaters.
4
Two giant anteaters fight it out.
5
Giant anteaters prowl the forest floor, sloths slowly navigate low-hanging branches, and hook-beaked harpy eagles dive-bomb the canopy above.
1
The habits of the Myrmecophaga jubata are now pretty well known.
2
The great Ant-eater, Tamandua of the natives ( Myrmecophaga jubata), was not uncommon here.
3
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.
4
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).
Usage of tamanoir in English
1
When attacking an ant-castle, the tamanoir strikes a hole in the wall of clay with his powerful, crooked claws.
2
This thrust-and-parry game continued for some minutes, and might have lasted longer, had it not been for the young tamanoir.
3
The tamanoir of Buffon is called uaraca by the Indians; it is irascible and courageous, which is extraordinary in an animal without teeth.
4
Just at this moment the tamanoir, having turned round to address some conversation to her young companion, espied him, and sprang to her feet.
5
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.
6
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).
Frequent collocations
Tamanoir through the time