giant anteater

What does giant anteater mean?

giant anteater means "large shaggy-haired toothless anteater with long tongue and powerful claws; of South America".

What is another word for giant anteater?

Close synonyms include ant bear, great anteater, tamanoir, Myrmecophaga jubata. 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 giant anteater a common word?

giant anteater is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for giant anteater come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.