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Ant-Eater
- - One of several species of edentates and monotremes that feed upon ants. See Ant-bear, Pangolin, Aard-vark, and Echidna.
Antalkali
- unknown - Substance that neutralises alkalis
Antapexes
- noun - the point opposite in direction from the solar apex; the point the solar system is moving away from
Antarctic
- adjective - at or near the south pole
- the region around the south pole: Antarctica and surrounding waters
Anteaters
- noun - 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
- any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites
- nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata
- small Australian marsupial having long snout and strong claws for feeding on termites; nearly extinct
- toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding on ants and termites
Anteceded
- verb - be earlier in time; go back further; "Stone tools precede bronze tools"
Antecedes
- verb - be earlier in time; go back further; "Stone tools precede bronze tools"
Antechoir
- - A space inclosed or reserved at the entrance to the choir, for the clergy and choristers. (b) Where a choir is divided, as in some Spanish churches, that division of it which is the farther from the sanctuary.
Antedated
- verb - be earlier in time; go back further; "Stone tools precede bronze tools"
- establish something as being earlier relative to something else