anteater

See also: ant-eater

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

ant +‎ eater

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US)

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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. 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

Terms derived from anteater

• 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
• Azeri: qarışqayeyən (az)
• Bulgarian: мравояд (bg) ‎(mravojad)
• Catalan: ós formiguer
• Chamicuro: mashilikeli
• Cherokee: ᏙᏒᏓᎵ ᏗᎦᏰᏍᎩ ‎(dosvdali digayesgi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 食蟻獸, 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 ‎(myrminkofágos)
• Hausa: dagbi
• Hebrew: דוב נמלים m ‎(dov nemalim)

• Hungarian: hangyász (hu)
• Icelandic: mauraæta f
• Isthmus Zapotec: bedxe chiiñuʼ
• Italian: formichiere (it) m
• Japanese: 蟻食 ‎(アリクイ, arikui)
• Kyrgyz: кумурскачы ‎(kumurskaçı)
• Lojban: mantyctimabru
• Malay: tenggiling
• Navajo: wóláchííʼ yildeełí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: maursluker (no) m

  Nynorsk: maurslukar m

• Persian: مورچه خوار (fa)
• Polish: mrówkojad (pl) m
• Portuguese: tamanduá (pt) m
• Romanian: furnicar (ro) m
• Russian: муравье́д (ru) m ‎(muravʹjéd)
• Serbo-Croatian: mravojed
• Spanish: oso hormiguero (es) m
• Swahili: kiharara, loma (sw)
• Turkish: karıncayiyen (tr)
• Ukrainian: мурахої́д m ‎(muraxojíd)
• Wolof: njaxat bu réy (bi)

See also

• Appendix:Animals