anteater

English

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Etymology

ant +‎ eater

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /ˈæntˌitɚ/
• (RP) IPA: /ˈæntˌiːtə/

Noun

anteater (plural anteaters)

1. Any of several animals, in suborder Vermilingua, which are noted for eating ants and termites which they catch with their long sticky tongues.
2. A common term used of some other unrelated species that feed with ants, including pangolin (scaly anteater), echidna (spiny anteater), aardvark and numbat (banded anteater).

Derived terms

banded anteater collared anteater giant anteater lesser anteater

scaly anteater silky anteater spiny anteater

Translations

mammal

• Armenian: մրջնակեր (hy) (mrǰnaker)
• Azeri: qarışqayeyən (az)
• Bulgarian: мравояд (bg) (mravojad)
• Chamicuro: mashilikeli
• Cherokee: ᏙᏒᏓᎵ ᏗᎦᏰᏍᎩ (chr) (dosvdali digayesgi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 食蟻獸 (cmn), 食蚁兽 (cmn) (shíyǐshòu)

• Czech: mravenečník (cs) m
• Danish: myresluger (da)
• Dutch: miereneter (nl) m
• Esperanto: formikomanĝulo (eo)
• Estonian: sipelgaõgija (et)
• Finnish: muurahaiskarhu (fi)
• French: fourmilier (fr) m
• German: Ameisenbär (de) m
• Greek: μυρμηγκοφάγος (el) (myrmigkofágos) m
• Hungarian: hangyász (hu)
• Icelandic: mauraæta (is) f

• Isthmus Zapotec: bedxe chiiñuʼ
• Italian: formichiere (it) m
• Japanese: アリクイ (ja) (arikui)
• Kyrgyz: кумурскачы (ky) (kumurskaçı)
• Lojban: mantyctimabru
• Malay: tenggiling (ms)
• Navajo: wóláchííʼ yildeełí
• Norwegian: maursluker (no)
• Polish: mrówkojad (pl) m
• Portuguese: tamanduá (pt) m
• Romanian: furnicar (ro) m
• Russian: муравьед (ru) (murav'jéd) m
• Serbo-Croatian: mravojed (sh)
• Spanish: oso hormiguero (es) m
• Swahili: kiharara (sw), loma (sw)
• Turkish: karıncayiyen (tr)
• Ukrainian: мурахоїд (uk) (muraxojíd) m
• Wolof: njaxat bu réy (wo) (bi)

See also

• Appendix:Animals