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Armadillo vs Anteater - What's the difference?

armadillo | anteater |

As nouns the difference between armadillo and anteater

is that armadillo is any of a family of burrowing mammals covered with bony, jointed, protective plates, genus dasypus while anteater is any of several animals, in suborder vermilingua, which are noted for eating ants and termites which they catch with their long sticky tongues.

armadillo

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Any of a family of burrowing mammals covered with bony, jointed, protective plates, genus Dasypus .
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    Hyponyms

    * (Andean hairy armadillo), beautiful armadillo, big hairy armadillo, (Chacoan naked-tailed armadillo), (dwarf armadillo), giant armadillo, (great long-nosed armadillo), (greater fairy armadillo), (greater naked-tailed armadillo), (hairy armadillo), (hairy long-nosed armadillo), (horned armadillo), (Llanos long-nosed armadillo), (naked-tailed armadillo), nine-banded armadillo, (northern horned armadillo), (northern three-banded armadillo), pink fairy armadillo, screaming hairy armadillo, (seven-banded armadillo), (six-banded armadillo), (southern long-nosed armadillo), (southern naked-tailed armadillo), (southern three-banded armadillo), (Texas armadillo), (three-banded armadillo)

    Related terms

    * armor

    See also

    * scutes * Xenarthra

    External links

    * (wikipedia "armadillo") ----

    anteater

    English

    (wikipedia anteater)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of several animals, in suborder Vermilingua, which are noted for eating ants and termites which they catch with their long sticky tongues.
  • A common term used of some other unrelated species that feed with ants, including pangolin (scaly anteater), echidna (spiny anteater), aardvark and numbat (banded anteater).

    • Derived terms

    * banded anteater * collared anteater * giant anteater * lesser anteater * scaly anteater * silky anteater * spiny anteater

    See also

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