a large, ant-eating, edentate mammal (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) of Central America and tropical South America, with a long, shaggy tail; giant anteater
2.
aardvark
ant bear in American English
noun
an aardvark
Word origin
[1545–55]This word is first recorded in the period 1545–55. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: caste, integral, offset, species, spiral