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# anteater

«anteater» in Mova's school dictionary: **a South and Central American mammal with a long snout and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an anteater, anteaters)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An anteater is a South and Central American mammal with a long snout and a long sticky tongue that eats ants and termites. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anteater/#m1)

2) Loosely, other ant-eating animals (like the echidna or pangolin) are sometimes called anteaters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anteater/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science, the giant anteater has no teeth; it rips open termite mounds with strong claws and flicks its tongue up to 150 times a minute. It is an example of an animal adapted to its food.

### examples

- The anteater poked its long nose into the termite mound. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anteater/#x1)
- An anteater has no teeth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anteater/#x2)
- The giant anteater has a bushy tail. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anteater/#x3)
- Its tongue is longer than my arm! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anteater/#x4)
- The baby anteater rode on its mother's back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anteater/#x5)
- Anteaters live in South America. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anteater/#x6)

### note

Use «an»: an anteater. Ant + eater.

### In the corpora

- [Giant anteaters walk on their knuckles to protect long front claws, which rip open hard termite mounds and can fight off a jaguar.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/108-the-south-american-area-sloths-anteaters-piranhas-giant-otters/8/)
- [Anteaters get a specially made mushy mix that copies an ant diet, because a zoo cannot collect enough wild ants.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/111-feeding-times-and-the-zoo-kitchen/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «anteater» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anteater/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.