anteater

See also: ant-eater

English

Etymology

From ant +‎ eater.

Pronunciation

An anteater.

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

Noun

anteater (plural anteaters)

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

Derived terms

African anteater
anteater dick
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 (pĩpṛabhuk)
Breton: merienaer m
Bulgarian: мравоя́д (bg) m (mravojád)
Catalan: ós formiguer m
Chamicuro: mashilikeli
Cherokee: ᏙᏒᏓᎵ ᏗᎦᏰᏍᎩ (dosvdali digayesgi)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 食蟻獸／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 (qūmyrsqajegış)
Korean: 개미핥기 (gaemihalgi)
Kyrgyz: кумурскачы (kumurskaçı)
Latin: vermilingua ?
Latvian: skudrlācis m
Lithuanian: skruzdėlynas m
Macedonian: мравојад m (mravojad)
Malay: tenggiling
Mongolian: шоргоолж идэштэн (šorgoolž idešten)
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