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nouna burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to New Guinea
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nounsmall Australian marsupial having long snout and strong claws for feeding on termites; nearly extinct
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nouna burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to Australia
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nounnocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata
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nountoothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding on ants and termites
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nounany of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites
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echidna aardvark placental spiny anteater monotreme egg-laying mammal banded anteater myrmecobius fasciatus numbat dasyurid marsupial dasyurid ant bear orycteropus afer placental mammal eutherian eutherian mammal pangolin scaly anteater new world anteater edentate lesser anteater cyclopes didactylus giant anteater great anteater myrmecophaga jubata silky anteater tamandu tamandua tamandua tetradactyla tamanoir two-toed anteater