- any of several mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae, having a long, tapered snout, extensile tongue, and powerful front claws and feeding chiefly on ants and termites.
- the aardvark.
- a pangolin.
- an echidna.
- banded anteater.
- any toothless edentate mammal of the family Myrmecophagidae of Central and South America, esp Myrmecophaga tridactyla (or jubata) (giant anteater), having a long tubular snout used for eating termites
- scaly anteater another name for pangolin
- spiny anteater another name for echidna
- banded anteater another name for numbat
