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Pangolin

noun
1.
Toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding on ants and termites.  Synonyms: anteater, scaly anteater.






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... orioles, sparrows, the beautiful trogans and jacamars, moles, shrews, hedgehogs, and a multitude of others, too numerous to mention, but not too numerous to eat. Ants, also, for the ant-eaters of America, the aard-vark of Africa, and the pangolin of Asia. The great ant-eater of South America is an animal sometimes measuring eight feet in length. It lives exclusively on ants, which it procures by tearing open their hills with its hooked claws, and then drawing ...
— The Deluge in the Light of Modern Science - A Discourse • William Denton

... [54] The pangolin or Manis, commonly known as ant-eater. The preceding sentence probably refers to the ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XXI, 1624 • Various

... beautiful trogans and jacamars, moles, shrews, hedgehogs, and a multitude of others, too numerous to mention, but not too numerous to eat. Ants, also, for the ant-eaters of America, the aard-vark of Africa, and the pangolin of Asia. The great ant-eater of South America is an animal sometimes measuring eight feet in length. It lives exclusively on ants, which it procures by tearing open their hills with its hooked claws, and then drawing its long tongue, which is covered with glutinous ...
— The Deluge in the Light of Modern Science - A Discourse • William Denton



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