Anteater in a sentence as a noun

In English, an anteater is an anteater and a wood splitter is a wood splitter.

In it, an anteater describes his relationship with an ant colony.

Consider the anteater, or any actual creature apart from humans.

The anteater describes to Achilles how emergent properties of intelligence are coded into the movements of the ants in the network.

Anteater definitions

noun

toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding on ants and termites

See also: pangolin

noun

any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites

noun

nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata

See also: aardvark

noun

small Australian marsupial having long snout and strong claws for feeding on termites; nearly extinct

See also: numbat

noun

a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to New Guinea

See also: echidna

noun

a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to Australia

See also: echidna