anteater vs giant anteater

giant anteater vs anteater

anteater and giant anteater both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
anteater	Yes	No	No	No
giant anteater	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, giant anteater is a hyponym of anteater; that is, giant anteater is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than anteater:

anteater: any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites
giant anteater: large shaggy-haired toothless anteater with long tongue and powerful claws; of South America

Other hyponyms of anteater include ant bear, great anteater, Myrmecophaga jubata, tamanoir, Cyclopes didactylus, silky anteater, two-toed anteater, lesser anteater, tamandu, tamandua, Tamandua tetradactyla.

anteater (noun)	giant anteater (noun)
any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites	large shaggy-haired toothless anteater with long tongue and powerful claws; of South America
nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata
a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to Australia
a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to New Guinea
toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding on ants and termites
small Australian marsupial having long snout and strong claws for feeding on termites; nearly extinct

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