ant bear

English Thesaurus

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

hypernym	:	eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal,
definition	:	mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	genus orycteropus, orycteropus,
definition	:	coextensive with the family Orycteropodidae (noun.animal)

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

hypernym	:	anteater, new world anteater,
definition	:	any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	genus myrmecophaga, myrmecophaga,
definition	:	type genus of the Myrmecophagidae; South American ant bear (noun.animal)