ANT BEAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ant bear mean? 

• ANT BEAR (noun)
  The noun ANT BEAR has 2 senses:

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

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

  Familiarity information: ANT BEAR used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANT BEAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large shaggy-haired toothless anteater with long tongue and powerful claws; of South America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

ant bear; giant anteater; great anteater; Myrmecophaga jubata; tamanoir

Hypernyms ("ant bear" is a kind of...):

anteater; New World anteater (any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites)

Holonyms ("ant bear" is a member of...):

genus Myrmecophaga; Myrmecophaga (type genus of the Myrmecophagidae; South American ant bear)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

aardvark; ant bear; anteater; Orycteropus afer

Hypernyms ("ant bear" is a kind of...):

eutherian; eutherian mammal; placental; placental mammal (mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)

Holonyms ("ant bear" is a member of...):

genus Orycteropus; Orycteropus (coextensive with the family Orycteropodidae)