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tamanduá

English translation: tamandua, anteater

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Portuguese term or phrase:tamanduá
English translation: tamandua, anteater
Entered by: Emilia Carneiro

11:52 May 21, 2003
Portuguese to English translations [Non-PRO]
Science
Portuguese term or phrase: tamanduá
an ent eating animal
Tish
tamandua, anteater
Explanation:
tamandua
noun: small toothless anteater with prehensile tale and four-clawed forelimbs; of tropical South and Central America
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Emilia Carneiro
Brazil
Local time: 18:46
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5 +4tamandua, anteater
Emilia Carneiro
5ant eater
airmailrpl
5Tamandua
Simona de Logu


  

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tamandua, anteater


Explanation:
tamandua
noun: small toothless anteater with prehensile tale and four-clawed forelimbs; of tropical South and Central America

Emilia Carneiro
Brazil
Local time: 18:46
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in pair: 8
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agree  Gert Vercauteren
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agree  Roberto Cavalcanti
43 mins
agree  José Antônio Ferreira
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agree  Ana Rita Santiago
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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
ant eater


Explanation:
tamanduá

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Note added at 2003-05-21 11:59:21 (GMT)
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The Sunday Tribune - Spectrum - Nature
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airmailrpl
Brazil
Local time: 18:46
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in pair: 3881
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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
Tamandua


Explanation:
This word is used in English. Otherwise you could say Lesser Anteater. Apparently there are two species Tamandua mexicana (Mexico, Venezuela, Peru) and Tamandua tetradactyla (Brazil, Argentina).


    www.press.jhu.edu/books/walker/ xenarthra.myrmecophagidae.tamandua.html
Simona de Logu
United Kingdom
Local time: 22:46
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in pair: 56
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