Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A South American family of vermilinguate edentate quadrupeds, typified by the genus Myrmecophaga, and alone representing the suborder Vermilinguia of the order Edentata or Bruta; the ant-eaters or ant-bears.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun (Zool.) A natural family of New World anteaters.
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- proper noun A taxonomic
family within thesuborder Vermilingua — severalanteaters .
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- noun New World anteaters
Etymologies
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Myrmecophaga + -idae
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