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- noun Plural form of
tamandua .
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Toothless tamanduas use their 16-inch 40 cm-long tongue to eat up to 9,000 ants a day!
ZooBorns Andrew Bleiman 2010
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Toothless tamanduas use their 16-inch 40 cm-long tongue to eat up to 9,000 ants a day!
ZooBorns Andrew Bleiman 2010
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Amazonian Indians sometimes use tamanduas as natural exterminators to rid their homes of ants and termites.
ZooBorns Andrew Bleiman 2010
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Amazonian Indians sometimes use tamanduas as natural exterminators to rid their homes of ants and termites.
ZooBorns Andrew Bleiman 2010
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Amazonian Indians sometimes use tamanduas as natural exterminators to rid their homes of ants and termites.
ZooBorns Andrew Bleiman 2010
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Toothless tamanduas use their 16-inch 40 cm-long tongue to eat up to 9,000 ants a day!
ZooBorns Andrew Bleiman 2010
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Amazonian Indians sometimes use tamanduas as natural exterminators to rid their homes of ants and termites.
ZooBorns Andrew Bleiman 2010
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Toothless tamanduas use their 16-inch 40 cm-long tongue to eat up to 9,000 ants a day!
ZooBorns Andrew Bleiman 2010
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Tyrannosaurs, terror birds, touracos and tamanduas: the hottest news in vertebrate palaeontology.
Archive 2006-04-01 Darren Naish 2006
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The others were in terror of attacks from the _onça pintada_ (_felis onça_) or spotted jaguar of Brazil, and of the _terrivel tamanduas bandeira_, a toothless pachyderm, with a long and hairy tail, long nails, and powerful arms, the embrace of which is said to be sufficient to kill a man, or even a jaguar, so foolish as to endeavour wrestling with it.
Across Unknown South America Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894
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