TAMANDUA TETRADACTYLA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tamandua tetradactyla mean? 

• TAMANDUA TETRADACTYLA (noun)
  The noun TAMANDUA TETRADACTYLA has 1 sense:

1. small toothless anteater with prehensile tail and four-clawed forelimbs; of tropical South America and Central America

  Familiarity information: TAMANDUA TETRADACTYLA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAMANDUA TETRADACTYLA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small toothless anteater with prehensile tail and four-clawed forelimbs; of tropical South America and Central America

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Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

lesser anteater; tamandu; tamandua; Tamandua tetradactyla

Hypernyms ("Tamandua tetradactyla" 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 ("Tamandua tetradactyla" is a member of...):

genus Tamandua (lesser anteater)