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TAMANDU

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tamandu mean? 

TAMANDU (noun)
  The noun TAMANDU has 1 sense:

1. small toothless anteater with prehensile tail and four-clawed forelimbs; of tropical South America and Central Americaplay

  Familiarity information: TAMANDU used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TAMANDU (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Small toothless anteater with prehensile tail and four-clawed forelimbs; of tropical South America and Central America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

lesser anteater; tamandu; tamandua; Tamandua tetradactyla

Hypernyms ("tamandu" is a kind of...):

anteater; New World anteater (any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites)

Holonyms ("tamandu" is a member of...):

genus Tamandua (lesser anteater)


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