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Platypus vs Anteater - What's the difference?

platypus | anteater |

As a proper noun platypus

is .

As a noun 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.

platypus

English

(wikipedia platypus)

Noun

  • An egg-laying, semi-aquatic mammal with a bill resembling that of a duck, that has a mole-like body, a tail resembling that of a beaver, a waterproof pelt, and flat webbed feet — males have poisonous spurs on the inside of the back legs; Ornithorhynchus anatinus
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    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "platypus")

    Synonyms

    * duck-billed platypus * duckbill * duckmole * watermole

    Derived terms

    * platypusary * platypussary

    See also

    * echidna * monotreme

    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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