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Noun: New World anteater
  1. Any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites
    "The New World anteater used its long sticky tongue to catch insects";
    - anteater

Derived forms: New World anteaters

Type of: edentate

Part of: family Myrmecophagidae, Myrmecophagidae