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Definition of Anteaters
1. anteater [n] - See also: anteater
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anteaters
Literary usage of Anteaters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Geographical History of Mammals by Richard Lydekker (1896)
"... —Sloths—anteaters—Ground-sloths—Marsupials— Cetaceans—Early Distinction of the
... anteaters ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The Sloths and anteaters, ... form of the head of the Sloths, combined with the
limbs and trunk of the anteaters. ... Pangolins or Scaly anteaters ; and (5) ..."
3. All About Animals Around the World by Lisa Vitarisi Mathews (2005)
"Children feed ants to hungry anteaters who have requested a particular number of
ants. Materials • page 188, reproduced 10 times and laminated • page 189, ..."
4. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1902)
"Considering the many adaptive resemblances between this genus and the American
anteaters, especially in the mouth cavity, it is remarkable that in Manis the ..."