tamanoir

Questions about tamanoir

What does tamanoir mean?

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

How many syllables are in tamanoir?

tamanoir has 3 syllables and divides as ta-ma-noir under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for tamanoir?

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

tamanoir 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.