MYRMECOPHAGIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Myrmecophagidae mean? 

• MYRMECOPHAGIDAE (noun)
  The noun MYRMECOPHAGIDAE has 1 sense:

1. New World anteaters

  Familiarity information: MYRMECOPHAGIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MYRMECOPHAGIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

New World anteaters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Myrmecophagidae; Myrmecophagidae

Hypernyms ("Myrmecophagidae" is a kind of...):

mammal family (a family of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "Myrmecophagidae"):

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

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

Cyclopes; genus Cyclopes (only the silky anteater)

genus Tamandua (lesser anteater)

Holonyms ("Myrmecophagidae" is a member of...):

suborder Xenarthra; Xenarthra (armadillos; American anteaters; sloths)