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Ant-bear  n.  (Zool.) An edentate animal of tropical America (the Tamanoir), living on ants. It belongs to the genus Myrmecophaga.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Ant-bear" Quotes from Famous Books



... the huts of Vudubele, the last kraal that you passed on your way here this afternoon, and all were mad drunk. They galloped down the valley, Lukwazi leading on a stout little grey stallion. He was beating his horse and yelling, and one blow made the horse swerve out of the path. There was an old ant-bear hole hidden in the grass, into which the horse trod, and falling, rolled over on its rider. Lukwazi lay quite still. His neck ...
— Kafir Stories - Seven Short Stories • William Charles Scully

... The small ant-bear, and the large one, remarkable for his long, broad, bushy tail, are sometimes seen on the tops of the wood-ants' nests; the armadillos bore in the sand-hills, like rabbits in a warren; and the porcupine is now and then discovered in the ...
— Wanderings In South America • Charles Waterton



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