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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ant-eat·er n. Zool. One of several species of edentates and monotremes that feed upon ants. See Ant-bear, Pangolin, Aard-vark, and Echidna.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 anteater
      n 1: toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body
           covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding
           on ants and termites [syn: pangolin, scaly anteater]
      2: any of several tropical American mammals of the family
         Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and
         termites [syn: New World anteater]
      3: nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that
         feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order
         Tubulidentata [syn: aardvark, ant bear, Orycteropus
          afer]
      4: small Australian marsupial having long snout and strong
         claws for feeding on termites; nearly extinct [syn: numbat,
          banded anteater, Myrmecobius fasciatus]
      5: New Guinea echidnas [syn: echidna, spiny anteater]
      6: burrowing spine-covered monotreme of Australia having a long
         snout and claws for hunting ants and termites [syn: echidna,
          spiny anteater]