anteater

See also: ant-eater

English

Giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla).

Etymology

From ant +‎ eater, from their typical diet.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US):

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Noun

anteater (plural anteaters)

2. Any of several animals of South and Central America, in the suborder Vermilingua, which are noted for eating ants and termites which they catch with their long sticky tongues, including giant anteater and lesser anteater (also known as collared anteater).
3. Any of some other not closely related species that feed with ants, including pangolin (scaly anteater), echidna (spiny anteater), aardvark (African anteater) and numbat (banded anteater).
4. (slang, derogatory or humorous) An uncircumcised penis.

Derived terms

• African anteater (Orycteropus afer)
• anteater chat
• anteater dick
• banded anteater (Myrmecobius fasciatus)
• collared anteater (Tamandua spp.)
• giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla)
• lesser anteater (Tamandua spp.)
• scaly anteater (Manis spp.)
• silky anteater (Cyclopes didactylus)
• spiny anteater (Tachyglossidae)

Translations

mammal

• Arabic: آكَل النَّمْل m (ʔākal an-naml)
• Armenian: մրջնակեր (hy) (mrǰnaker)
• Asturian: osu formigueru (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: qarışqayeyən (az)
• Belarusian: мурашкае́д m (muraškajéd)
• Bengali: পিঁপড়াভুক (pĩpṛabhuk)
• Breton: merienaer m
• Bulgarian: мравоя́д (bg) m (mravojád)
• Catalan: os formiguer m
• Chamicuro: mashilikeli
• Cherokee: ᏙᏒᏓᎵ ᏗᎦᏰᏍᎩ (dosvdali digayesgi)
• Chinese:

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

• Corsican: furmiculaiu
• 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)
• Hindi: चींटीख़ोर (cī̃ṭīxor)
• Hungarian: hangyász (hu)
• Icelandic: mauraæta f
• Irish: arcán talún (ga) m, alpaire seangán m
• Italian: formichiere (it) m
• Japanese: 蟻食 (ja) (アリクイ, arikui), アリクイ (ja) (arikui)
• Kashubian: mrówkòjôd m
• Kazakh: құмырсқажегіш (qūmyrsqajegış)
• Korean: 개미핥기 (gaemihalgi)
• Kyrgyz: кумурскачы (kumurskacı)
• Latin: vermilingua ?
• Latvian: skudrlācis m
• Lithuanian: skruzdėlynas m
• Macedonian: мравојад m (mravojad)
• Malay: tenggiling (ms)
• Mongolian: шоргоолж идэштэн (šorgoolž idešten)
• Nahuatl:

  Classical Nahuatl: āzcacoyōtl

• Navajo: wóláchííʼ yildeełí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: maursluker (no) m

  Nynorsk: maurslukar m

• Panare: wainki
• Persian: مورچه‌خوار (fa) (murče-xâr)
• Plautdietsch: Eemskjefräta f
• Polish: mrówkojad (pl) m anim
• Portuguese: tamanduá (pt) m, papa-formigas (pt) m (Portugal)
• Q'eqchi: tz'uqtz'uum
• Romanian: furnicar (ro) m
• Russian: муравье́д (ru) m (muravʹjéd)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мравојед m

  Latin: mravojed m

• Slovak: mravčiar m
• Slovene: mravljinčar (sl) m
• Spanish: oso hormiguero (es) m, shihui m or f (Peru)
• Sundanese: peusing
• Swahili: kiharara ?, loma (sw) ?
• Swedish: myrslok (sv) c
• Tajik: мӯрчахӯр (mürčaxür)
• Tamil: எறும்புத்தின்னி (ta) (eṟumputtiṉṉi)
• Thai: ตัวกินมด (dtuua-gin-mót)
• Turkish: karıncayiyen (tr)
• Ukrainian: мурахої́д m (muraxojíd)
• Uyghur: چۈمۈلىخور (chümülixor)
• Uzbek: chumolixoʻr
• Vietnamese: thú ăn kiến (vi)
• Welsh: morgrugysor m
• Wolof: njaxat bu réy (bi)
• Zapotec:

  Isthmus Zapotec: bedxe chiiñuʼ

• Zazaki: morcelewerdoğ

See also

• Appendix:Animals