(n): mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials
(n): any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites
(n): primitive terrestrial mammal with few if any teeth; of tropical Central America and South America
(n): nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata
(n): mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials
(n): small Australian marsupial having long snout and strong claws for feeding on termites; nearly extinct
(n): small carnivorous nocturnal marsupials of Australia and Tasmania
(n): a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to New Guinea
(n): the most primitive mammals comprising the only extant members of the subclass Prototheria
(n): a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to Australia
(n): the most primitive mammals comprising the only extant members of the subclass Prototheria
Anteaters prefer termites to ants.
Usage note:
"...leaving them on a broad veranda with a number of domesticated creatures on it, marmosets of three different kinds, an old bald toucan, a row of sleepy parrots, something hairy in the background that might have been a sloth or an anteater or even a doormat but that it farted from time to time, looking around censoriously on each occasion, and a strikingly elegant blue heron that walked in and out."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Far Side of the World, 177