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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 America
Familiarity information: TAMANDU used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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