1. (noun) large shaggy-haired toothless anteater with long tongue and powerful claws; of South America

• giant anteater
• great anteater
• myrmecophaga jubata
• tamanoir

2. (noun) nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata

• aardvark
• anteater
• orycteropus afer

1. (noun) large shaggy-haired toothless anteater with long tongue and powerful claws; of South America

• anteater
• new world anteater

2. (noun) nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata

• eutherian
• eutherian mammal
• placental
• placental mammal

1. (noun) large shaggy-haired toothless anteater with long tongue and powerful claws; of South America

• genus myrmecophaga
• myrmecophaga

2. (noun) nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata

• genus orycteropus
• orycteropus