new world anteater

Questions about new world anteater

What does new world anteater mean?

new world anteater means "any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites".

What is another word for new world anteater?

Close synonyms include anteater. 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 new world anteater a common word?

new world 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.