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ant-eater

ant-eater is the alternative form of anteater.

Meaning of anteater

Noun

anteater (plural anteaters)

  1. Any 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).
  2. Any of some other not closely related species that feed with ants, including pangolin (scaly anteater), echidna (spiny anteater), aardvark (African anteater) and numbat (banded anteater).
  3. (derogatory, humorous, slang) An uncircumcised penis.

Forms of ant-eater

pluralant-eaters

Questions about ant-eater

What is ant-eater the alternative form of?
Ant-eater is the alternative form of anteater.

Words near ant-eater in the dictionary

  1. ant-bears
  2. ant-bed
  3. ant-beds
  4. ant-blue
  5. ant-blues
  6. ant-eater
  7. ant-eaters
  8. ant-heap
  9. ant-heaps
  10. ant-hill
  11. ant-hills

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ant-eater (page history and authors); anteater (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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