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A	noun
	1	echidna, spiny anteater, anteater
			burrowing spine-covered monotreme of Australia having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites
		Category Tree: entity ╚object; physical object ╚living thing; animate thing ╚organism; being ╚animal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; fauna ╚chordate ╚vertebrate; craniate ╚mammal ╚prototherian ╚monotreme; egg-laying mammal ╚echidna, spiny anteater, anteater
	2	echidna, spiny anteater, anteater
			New Guinea echidnas
		Category Tree: entity ╚object; physical object ╚living thing; animate thing ╚organism; being ╚animal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; fauna ╚chordate ╚vertebrate; craniate ╚mammal ╚prototherian ╚monotreme; egg-laying mammal ╚echidna, spiny anteater, anteater
	3	numbat, banded anteater, anteater, Myrmecobius fasciatus
			small Australian marsupial having long snout and strong claws for feeding on termites; nearly extinct
		Category Tree: entity ╚object; physical object ╚living thing; animate thing ╚organism; being ╚animal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; fauna ╚chordate ╚vertebrate; craniate ╚mammal ╚metatherian ╚marsupial; pouched mammal ╚dasyurid marsupial; dasyurid ╚numbat, banded anteater, anteater, Myrmecobius fasciatus
	4	aardvark, ant bear, anteater, Orycteropus afer
			nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata
		Category Tree: entity ╚object; physical object ╚living thing; animate thing ╚organism; being ╚animal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; fauna ╚chordate ╚vertebrate; craniate ╚mammal ╚placental; placental mammal; eutherian; eutherian mammal ╚aardvark, ant bear, anteater, Orycteropus afer
	5	anteater, New World anteater
			any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites
		Category Tree: entity ╚object; physical object ╚living thing; animate thing ╚organism; being ╚animal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; fauna ╚chordate ╚vertebrate; craniate ╚mammal ╚placental; placental mammal; eutherian; eutherian mammal ╚edentate ╚anteater, New World anteater ╚tamandua; tamandu; lesser anteater; Tamandua tetradactyla ╚silky anteater; two-toed anteater; Cyclopes didactylus ╚ant bear; giant anteater; great anteater; tamanoir; Myrmecophaga jubata
	6	pangolin, scaly anteater, anteater
			toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding on ants and termites
		Category Tree: entity ╚object; physical object ╚living thing; animate thing ╚organism; being ╚animal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; fauna ╚chordate ╚vertebrate; craniate ╚mammal ╚placental; placental mammal; eutherian; eutherian mammal ╚pangolin, scaly anteater, anteater

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