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Definition of Spiny anteater

1. Noun. A burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to New Guinea.

2. Noun. A burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to Australia.

Definition of Spiny anteater

1. Noun. (zoology) A common name for echidna. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spiny Anteater

spintos spintronic spintronics spinula spinulae spinule spinules spinulose spinward spinworthy

spiny-finned fish spiny-headed worm spiny anteater (current term) spiny anteaters spiny dogfish spiny lizard spiny lobster spiny lobsters spiny oyster spiny puffer

spiny softshell spiny softshell turtle spiny spider crab spiny spider crabs spiny talinum spinyhead spiodea

Literary usage of Spiny anteater

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Introduction to the Mammalian Dentition by Thomas Wingate Todd (1918)
"Since one of the existing Monotremes, the spiny anteater of Australia and New ... Certain bodily features however occur in both spiny anteater and Duckbill ..."

2. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"... and the spiny anteater of Australia, Echidna, are without teeth at any time, but many mammals which do not possess them when adult, have rudimentary ..."

3. College zoology by Robert William Hegner (1918)
"Dermal papillae occur on the FIG. 545. — Diagrammatic longitudinal sections through the distal ends of the digits of mammals. A, spiny anteater ..."

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