fourmilier
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Italian formigaro. By surface analysis, fourmi (“ant”) + -ier.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
fourmilier m (plural fourmiliers)
- anteater
- George Pouchet, Mémoires sur le Grand Fourmilier, Paris 1874, 68:
- On sait que la cavité buccale des Fourmiliers, malgré son orifice extrêmement étroit, atteint des dimensions considérables.
- It is known that the oral cavity of the anteaters, despite its extremely narrow orifice, reaches considerable extents.
- George Pouchet, Mémoires sur le Grand Fourmilier, Paris 1874, 68:
- any of a number of different species of ant-eating birds
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Further reading[edit]
- “fourmilier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.