spiny anteater

Questions about spiny anteater

What does spiny anteater mean?

spiny anteater means "a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to New Guinea". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for spiny anteater?

Close synonyms include echidna, anteater, echidna, 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 spiny anteater a common word?

spiny 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.