scaly anteater

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Origin of scaly anteater

First recorded in 1830–40

Words nearby scaly anteater

scalping, scalp lock, scalpriform, scalprum, scaly, scaly anteater, scam, Scamander, scambaiting, scamillus, scammer

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How to use scaly anteater in a sentence

Even bullets will fly off from any other part of the scaly covering as though they had struck against a stone wall.
Alila, Our Little Philippine Cousin|Mary Hazelton Wade
Its scaly body wound about her boot, the flat head swaying from side to side, was a huge rattlesnake.
The Adventure Girls at K Bar O|Clair Blank
Some have, indeed, confounded the scaly lizards of the East Indies with the armadillos of America.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume VII (of 10)|Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
The tail was covered with hair for two or three inches from the beginning, and the rest of it with a smooth scaly skin to the end.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume VII (of 10)|Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon

Indeed, you could as little get hold of Chopin as, to use L. Enault's expression, of the scaly back of a siren.
Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician|Frederick Niecks

British Dictionary definitions for scaly anteater

scaly anteater

noun

another name for pangolin

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