anteater

See also: ant-eater

English

Etymology

From ant +‎ eater.

Pronunciation

An anteater.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈæntˌiːtə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæntˌitɚ/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

anteater (plural anteaters)

1. Any of several animals, in suborder Vermilingua, which are noted for eating ants and termites which they catch with their long sticky tongues.
2. Any of some other unrelated species that feed with ants, including pangolin (scaly anteater), echidna (spiny anteater), aardvark and numbat (banded anteater).

Derived terms

• banded anteater (Myrmecobius fasciatus)
• collared anteater (Tamandua spp.)
• giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla)
• lesser anteater (Tamandua spp.)
• scaly anteater (Manis spp
• silky anteater (Cyclopes didactylus)
• spiny anteater (Tachyglossidae)

 

Translations

mammal

• Arabic: آكَل النَّمْل‎ m (ʾākal an-naml)
• Armenian: մրջնակեր (hy) (mrǰnaker)
• Asturian: osu formigueru (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: qarışqayeyən (az)
• Belarusian: мурашкае́д m (muraškajéd)
• Bengali: পিঁপড়াভুক (pĩpôṛabhuk)
• Breton: merienaer m
• Bulgarian: мравоя́д (bg) m (mravojád)
• Catalan: ós formiguer m
• Chamicuro: mashilikeli
• Cherokee: ᏙᏒᏓᎵ ᏗᎦᏰᏍᎩ (dosvdali digayesgi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 食蟻獸 (zh), 食蚁兽 (zh) (shíyǐshòu)

• Corsican: furmiculaiu
• 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 (myrmigkofágos)
• Hausa: dagbi
• Hebrew: דוב נמלים‎ m (dov nemalim)
• Hindi: चींटीख़ोर (cī̃ṭīxor)
• Hungarian: hangyász (hu)
• Icelandic: mauraæta f
• Irish: arcán talún (ga) m, alpaire seangán m
• Isthmus Zapotec: bedxe chiiñuʼ
• Italian: formichiere (it) m
• Japanese: 蟻食 (アリクイ, arikui), アリクイ (ja) (arikui)
• Kazakh: құмырсқажегіш (qumırsqajegiş)
• Korean: 개미핥기 (gaemihalgi)
• Kyrgyz: кумурскачы (qumursqaçı)

• Latin: vermilingua ?
• Latvian: skudrlācis m
• Lithuanian: skruzdėlynas m
• Macedonian: мравојад m (mravojad)
• Malay: tenggiling
• Mongolian: шоргоолж идэштэн (shorgoolj ideshten)
• Navajo: wóláchííʼ yildeełí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: maursluker (no) m

  Nynorsk: maurslukar m

• Panare: wainki
• Persian: مورچه‌خوار‎ (fa) (murče-xâr)
• Plautdietsch: Eemskjefräta f
• Polish: mrówkojad (pl) m
• Portuguese: tamanduá (pt) m
• Romanian: furnicar (ro) m
• Russian: муравье́д (ru) m (muravʹjéd)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мравојед m

  Roman: mravojed m

• Slovak: mravčiar m
• Slovene: mravljinčar (sl) m
• Spanish: oso hormiguero (es) m
• Swahili: kiharara ?, loma (sw) ?
• Swedish: myrslok (sv) c
• Tajik: мӯрчахӯр (mürčaxür)
• Thai: ตัวกินมด (dtuua-gin-mót)
• Turkish: karıncayiyen (tr)
• Ukrainian: мурахої́д m (muraxojíd)
• Uyghur: چۈمۈلىخور‎ (chümülixor)
• Uzbek: chumolixoʻr
• Vietnamese: thú ăn kiến
• Welsh: morgrugysor m
• Wolof: njaxat bu réy (bi)
• Zazaki: morcelewerdoğ

See also

• Appendix:Animals