ant bear

Questions about ant bear

What does ant bear mean?

ant bear means "large shaggy-haired toothless anteater with long tongue and powerful claws; of South America". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for ant bear?

Close synonyms include giant anteater, great anteater, tamanoir, Myrmecophaga jubata, aardvark. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ant bear a common word?

ant bear is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.