Crossword clues for anteater
anteater
- Sticky-tongued nest raider
- Toothless mammal
- Red army's enemy?
- Pangolin, e.g
- Mammal with a long snout
- Insect muncher
- Black Flag alternative?
- University of California, Irvine mascot
- UC Irvine mascot
- Toothless predator
- Threat to tiny workers
- Termite's terminus?
- Termite targeter
- Termite predator
- Termite nemesis
- Termite muncher
- Termite hunter
- Sticky-tongued animal
- Snacker on termites
- Sloth cousin
- Relative of the aardvark
- Pointy-nosed animal
- Pangolin or aardvark
- One may attack an army
- One dining on a hill?
- One always sticking its nose in things
- Lover of armies?
- Insect consumer
- Feeder at a termite mound
- Diner on a hill
- Creature that Dalí walked on a leash in public
- Colony-crashing creature
- Colony raider
- Big army fan?
- Animal with a limited diet
- Aardvark lookalike
- Aardvark or pangolin
- Insectivorous creature
- One attacking a colony, maybe
- Animal with no teeth
- Attacker of colonies
- Termite clearer?
- One sticking his nose in things
- Termite tormentor
- It has a long tongue
- One with a deadly tongue
- *Toothless mammal
- Termite's nemesis
- "B.C." animal that goes ZOT!
- Creature that DalГ walked on a leash in public
- Small Australian marsupial having long snout and strong claws for feeding on termites
- New Guinea echidnas
- Burrowing spine-covered monotreme of Australia having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites
- Nearly extinct
- Nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites
- Toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding on ants and termites
- Any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites
- Sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata
- Tamandua
- Feaster at a formicary
- Pangolin, for one
- Hill invader
- Echidna or pangolin
- Sticky-tongued mammal
- Welcome picnic guest?
- Mammal climbing Sicilian mountain consumed last of water
- Article on new teen art — it takes in the workers
- Scaly insectivore
- Animal with long tongue that collects insects
- Pangolin, for example
- He'll get stuck into workers before subsequently dismissing leader
- Termite terror
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 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).
WordNet
n. toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding on ants and termites [syn: pangolin, scaly anteater]
any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites [syn: New World anteater]
nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata [syn: aardvark, ant bear, Orycteropus afer]
small Australian marsupial having long snout and strong claws for feeding on termites; nearly extinct [syn: numbat, banded anteater, Myrmecobius fasciatus]
New Guinea echidnas [syn: echidna, spiny anteater]
burrowing spine-covered monotreme of Australia having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites [syn: echidna, spiny anteater]
Wikipedia
Anteater ("The Anteater" in Britain; "Ameisenbaer" in Germany) is an arcade game designed by Chris Oberth and released in 1982 by Tago Electronics. Though the arcade game was not a hit, it spawned a number of direct clones for home computers, some of which became better known than the original.
" Anteater" properly refers to the four species of the suborder Vermilingua native to Mexico, Central America, and tropical South America. This includes two species of Tamandua (Silky Anteaters) and the Giant Anteater.
Anteater can also refer to any of several unrelated species which have independently and convergently adapted to fill the same niche of eating ants or termites:
- Aardvark (Cape anteater), a medium-sized mammal native to Africa
- Echidna (spiny anteater), a family of monotremes native to New Guinea and Australia
- Numbat (formerly Banded Anteater), a small marsupial endemic to western Australia
- Pangolin (scaly anteater), mammals found in tropical regions of Africa and Asia
Anteater is a common name for the four extant mammal species of the suborder Vermilingua (meaning "worm tongue") commonly known for eating ants and termites. The individual species have other names in English and other languages. Together with the sloths, they are within the order Pilosa. The name "anteater" is also colloquially applied to the unrelated aardvark, numbat, echidnas, pangolins and some members of the Oecobiidae.
Extant species are the giant anteater Myrmecophaga tridactyla, about long including the tail; the silky anteater Cyclopes didactylus, about long; the southern tamandua or collared anteater Tamandua tetradactyla, about long; and the northern tamandua Tamandua mexicana of similar dimensions.
Usage examples of "anteater".
Most of our birds and reptiles, and our lemurs, rhinos, orang-utans, mandrills, lion-tailed macaques, giraffes, anteaters, tigers, leopards, cheetahs, hyenas, zebras, Himalayan and sloth bears, Indian elephants and Nilgiri tahrs, among others, were in demand, but others, Elfie for example, were met with silence.
Here, pangolins from Asia, carnivores from North America, hoofed creatures from Africa, European insectivores like ancestral hedgehogs, and even anteaters from South America mingled and competed.
I could make out a warthog and a line of anteaters trundling nose to tail.
South Pacific, and since Onar had this anteater gig, he talked me into coming down here with him.
Fortunately, I had a prior relationship with Onar, and I made sure that he was the anteater whom Meta West sent down here to deal with Mr.
The anteater was a descendant of South American stock, which had wandered here over temporary land bridges many generations before.
The scent, fur, cry, scat, and teeth markings on half-consumed fruit, the prints through duff of an anteater, are all mentally noted.
Simna to suspect it was some kind of arthropod siphoner, like an anteater or echidna.
If the shan-kossief was big enough, it could conceivably drag the entire vessel beneath the surface where it would proceed to pick them off as efficiently as an anteater would glean a termite nest.
Owen, nearest to the Cape Anteater, but in some other respects it approaches to the armadilloes.
Every so often, like an anteater, he buries his nose and comes up gasping.
The warriors were carrying the giant anteater figurine and Scarface had a sharpened branch and a miniature club in its forelegs.
The viruses the Endangered Species Replacement Program used had been designed to replace, bit by bit, the genes that made a human being human with those that specified an anteater, a rhinoceros, a giant tortoise, a.
First he slew a snowshoe rabbit cleaving it in twain with a single blow and then he slew a spiny anteater and then he slew two rusty numbats and then whirling the great blade round and round his head he slew a wallaby and a lemur and a trio of ouakaris and a spider monkey and a common squid.
For being himself a small creature, he recognized the excellence of many small things, and he knew that the scaly anteater, the pangolin, was to be honoured even more than the lion, and the praying mantis, an insect, was more worthy than the elephant or the gemsbok, for in each of them reposed a special part of the godhead of nature which he worshipped.