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anteaternounAny of several animals of South and Central America, in the suborder Vermilingua, which are noted for eating ants and termites which they catch with their long sticky tongues, including giant anteater and lesser anteater (also known as collared anteater).
scaly anteaternounAny of several species of pangolin (Manis spp.).

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scaly anteaternounAny of several species of pangolin (Manis spp.).
anteaternounAny of several animals of South and Central America, in the suborder Vermilingua, which are noted for eating ants and termites which they catch with their long sticky tongues, including giant anteater and lesser anteater (also known as collared anteater).
pengolinnounArchaic form of pangolin. [Any of several long-tailed, scale-covered mammals of the family Manidae within the order Pholidota of tropical Africa and Asia.]
african anteaternounThe aardvark.
long-tailed pangolinnounA pangolin of species Phataginus tetradactyla (syn. Manis tetradactyla).
giant pangolinnounA pangolin of species Manis gigantea of tropical parts of western Africa and western central Africa.
chinese pangolinnounAny of species Manis pentadactyla of pangolins.
phataginnounThe long-tailed pangolin (Manis tetradactyla).
tree pangolinnounA pangolin of species Phataginus tricuspis (syn. Manis tricuspis), found in southeastern Asia and northern Australia, especially in mangroves.
manisnoun(obsolete) The pangolin.
indian pangolinnounA pangolin of species Manis crassicaudata.
manidnoun(zoology) pangolin
sunda pangolinnounA pangolin of species Manis javanica, of Southeast Asia.
ground pangolinnounA pangolin of species Smutsia temminckii (syn. Manis temminckii).
pholidotenoun(zoology) A member of the Pholidota; a pangolin.
pangopupnoun(informal, neologism) A young pangolin; a scaly anteater pup.
banded anteaternoun(former common name) The numbat (Myrmecobius fasciatus).
maned ratnounLophiomys imhausi, a nocturnal, long-haired and bushy-tailed East African rodent that superficially resembles a porcupine.
paninenoun(rare) A mammal of the genus Pan.
macropodinenounAny marsupial of the subfamily Macropodinae

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