1. Small toothless anteater with prehensile tail and four-clawed forelimbs; of tropical South America and Central America
   "The lesser anteater uses its long tongue to catch ants and termites";
   - tamandua, tamandu, Tamandua tetradactyla

Derived forms: lesser anteaters

Type of: anteater, New World anteater

Part of: genus Tamandua

Encyclopedia: Lesser anteater