ant bear

noun

1. aardvark.

ant bear

noun

1. another name for aardvark

Word History and Origins

Origin of ant bear¹

First recorded in 1545–55

Example Sentences

It could belong to no other creature than the tamanoir, or great ant-eater, by the people of South America called the ant-bear.

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Another species of “ant-bear,” differing from both in size and in many of its habits, is the “little ant-eater.”

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For my own part, perched upon the apex of a ten-foot ant-bear cone, I need have no misgivings.

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But this is a distorted and unnatural position, and in life would be a painful and intolerable attitude for the ant-bear.

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There is another singularity in the anatomy of the ant-bear, I believe as yet unnoticed in the page of natural history.

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