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any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites burrowing spine-covered monotreme of Australia having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites New Guinea echidnas small Australian marsupial having long snout and strong claws for feeding on termites; nearly extinct nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding on ants and termites |
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