ant bear

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noun

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answerback, answering machine, answering pennant, answering service, ant, ant bear, ant bird, ant cow, ant egg, ant hill, ant lion

Origin of ant bear

First recorded in 1545–55

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Examples from the Web for ant bear

I am told that up in the Drakensberg yonder the ant-bear holes are full of Englishmen.
Jess|H. Rider Haggard
While journeying through the interior of Brazil I not infrequently came across the big tamandua, the ant-bear or ant-eater.
A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open|Theodore Roosevelt
It is not every day that a Boer frau has the chance of seeing a real live English rooibaatje baited like an ant-bear on the flat.
Jess|H. Rider Haggard
There is another singularity in the anatomy of the ant-bear, I believe as yet unnoticed in the page of natural history.
Wanderings in South America|Charles Waterton

Suddenly the Vilderbeeste's horse put his foot into an ant-bear hole and fell heavily, throwing his rider on to his head.
Jess|H. Rider Haggard

British Dictionary definitions for ant bear

ant bear

noun

another name for aardvark

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ant bear

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ant bear

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