Definitions for tamandua

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tamandua ta·man·du·a

Spelling: [tuh-man-doo-uh, tuh-man-doo- Tamandua is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 142 anagrams from letters in tamandua (aaadmntu).

Definitions for tamandua

noun

1. a tree-dwelling, tropical American anteater, Tamandua tetradactyla, having a prehensile tail, four-clawed forelimbs, and coarse, tan hair with black markings on the trunk.

Origin of tamandua

1605-15; Portuguese Tupi: literally, ant-trapper

Examples for tamandua

When left by the tamandua to their own devices there were myriads still surviving.

Figs. 107 and 108 show the entire abdominal portion of the alimentary tract in tamandua bivittata, the little ant-eater of Brazil.

One of these species is the tamandua, called by the Spano-Americans Osso hormiguero (ant-bear).

There are many scales on the body; in Myrmecophaga there are traces of these structures on the tail, as also in tamandua.

I observe that Rudolphi distinctly refers to this edentate as the tamandua.

Fig. 293 shows a view of the abdominal cavity from the right side in a specimen of the ant-eater, tamandua bivittata.

Like the last genus, tamandua has a rudimentary clavicle, this bone being well developed in the little Cycloturus.

The second species of tamandua—that is, in size—is quite a different creature.

The tamandua is much less than the tamanoir, being only three and a half feet in length, while the latter is over seven.

tamandua has also retia, which are also found in the Spider-monkeys.