anteater

«anteater» in Mova's school dictionary: a South and Central American mammal with a long snout and… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (an anteater, anteaters)

meaning for a pupil

1) An anteater is a South and Central American mammal with a long snout and a long sticky tongue that eats ants and termites. tree →

2) Loosely, other ant-eating animals (like the echidna or pangolin) are sometimes called anteaters. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science, the giant anteater has no teeth; it rips open termite mounds with strong claws and flicks its tongue up to 150 times a minute. It is an example of an animal adapted to its food.

examples

• The anteater poked its long nose into the termite mound. tree →
• An anteater has no teeth. tree →
• The giant anteater has a bushy tail. tree →
• Its tongue is longer than my arm! tree →
• The baby anteater rode on its mother's back. tree →
• Anteaters live in South America. tree →

note

Use «an»: an anteater. Ant + eater.

In the corpora

• Giant anteaters walk on their knuckles to protect long front claws, which rip open hard termite mounds and can fight off a jaguar.
• Anteaters get a specially made mushy mix that copies an ant diet, because a zoo cannot collect enough wild ants.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «anteater» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.