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southern
Adjective
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A southern place, accent, person, etc. is in, from, or about the south.
The money helps everyone from a grocer in southern Lebanon to a farmer in Tajikistan.
My grandmother moved to southern California to live with my aunt.
Her soft, southern accent reminded him of warm summer nights.
Recently, elephants have done well in southern Africa.
She remembered a summer afternoon swimming off the family compound at the southern tip of Taiwan.
Each year, millions of Mexicans cross that southern border from Mexico into the United States.
Dire Dawa is located on the southern edge of the Rift Valley at the foot of the Harrar Mountains.
Jupiter lies fairly low in the southern sky after dusk.
anteater
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noun
(= pangolin)
toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding on ants and termites
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noun
any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites
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noun
(= aardvark)
nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata
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noun
(= echidna)
a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to Australia
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noun
(= echidna)
a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to New Guinea
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noun
(= numbat)
small Australian marsupial having long snout and strong claws for feeding on termites; nearly extinct