What does scaly anteater mean?

scaly anteater means "toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding on ants and termites".

What is another word for scaly anteater?

Close synonyms include pangolin, 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 scaly anteater a common word?

scaly 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.

scaly anteater — meaning, pronunciation and definition

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1.
toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding on ants and termites
Synonymspangolin anteater
Broaderplacental
Part ofManis

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What does scaly anteater mean?: scaly anteater means "toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding on ants and termites".

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