anteater

See also: ant-eater

English

Etymology

ant +‎ eater

Pronunciation

An anteater

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈæntˌiːtə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæntˌitɚ/

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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. Any 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

• Arabic: آكل النمل‎
• Armenian: մրջնակեր (hy) (mrǰnaker)
• Asturian: osu formigueru m
• Azerbaijani: qarışqayeyən (az)
• Bulgarian: мравояд (bg) (mravojad)
• Catalan: ós formiguer
• Chamicuro: mashilikeli
• Cherokee: ᏙᏒᏓᎵ ᏗᎦᏰᏍᎩ (dosvdali digayesgi)
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: mravenečník (cs) m
• Danish: myresluger c
• Dutch: miereneter (nl) m
• Erzya: коткодавовто (kotkodavovto)
• Esperanto: formikomanĝulo
• Estonian: sipelgaõgija
• Faroese: meyruslúkur m
• Finnish: muurahaiskarhu (fi)
• French: fourmilier (fr) m
• German: Ameisenbär (de) m
• Greek: μυρμηγκοφάγος (el) m (myrmigkofágos)
• Hausa: dagbi
• Hebrew: דוב נמלים‎ m (dov nemalim)
• Hungarian: hangyász (hu)
• Icelandic: mauraæta f
• Irish: arcán talún (ga) m, alpaire seangán m
• Isthmus Zapotec: bedxe chiiñuʼ

• Italian: formichiere (it) m
• Japanese: 蟻食 (アリクイ, arikui)
• Kyrgyz: кумурскачы (kumurskaçı)
• Latin: vermilingua
• Malay: tenggiling
• Mongolian: шоргоолж идэштэн (šorgoolž idešten)
• Navajo: wóláchííʼ yildeełí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: maursluker (no) m

  Nynorsk: maurslukar m

• Panare: wainki
• Persian: مورچه خوار‎ (fa)
• Polish: mrówkojad (pl) m
• Portuguese: tamanduá (pt) m
• Romanian: furnicar (ro) m
• Russian: муравье́д (ru) m (muravʹjéd)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ^{(please verify)} мравојед

  Roman: ^{(please verify)} mravojed

• Spanish: oso hormiguero (es) m
• Swahili: kiharara, loma (sw)
• Swedish: myrslok (sv) c
• Turkish: karıncayiyen (tr)
• Ukrainian: мурахої́д m (muraxojíd)
• Uyghur: چۈمۈلىخور‎ (chümülixor)
• Wolof: njaxat bu réy (bi)

See also

• Appendix:Animals