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Definition of Tamanoir
1. Noun. Large shaggy-haired toothless anteater with long tongue and powerful claws; of South America.
Generic synonyms: Anteater, New World Anteater
Group relationships: Genus Myrmecophaga, Myrmecophaga
Definition of Tamanoir
1. n. The ant-bear.
Definition of Tamanoir
1. Noun. aardvark ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tamanoir
1. the great antbear [n -S]
Medical Definition of Tamanoir
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Tamanoir
Literary usage of Tamanoir
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Natural History of the Globe: Of Man, of Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles by Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon, John Wright (1831)
"The tamanoir walks slowly ; a man can easily overtake him in running: his ...
He is much smaller than the tamanoir ; he is not above eighteen inches from ..."
2. Travels in South America: From the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean by Paul Marcoy (1875)
"I recognized it as an ant-eater, or tamanoir, of the smaller species,1 and ...
That the tamanoir should have been surprised by the most terrible of its ..."
3. The Illustrated Natural History by John George Wood (1865)
"The tamanoir is a native of Guinea, Brazil, and Paraguay. The TAMANDUA possesses
an elongated head, like that of the tamanoir, but the skull is not so ..."
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