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anteater

anteater

See also: ant-eater

English

Noun

anteater ‎(plural anteaters)

Any of several animals, in suborder Vermilingua, which are noted for eating ants and termites which they catch with their long sticky tongues.
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

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 (zh), 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