Crossword-Solution: ANTEATER 8 letters, 85 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Jimmy says the man offered Jones minimus a shilling if he would remove the pig and that piebald anteater from the garden in five minutes.

The anteater that one body of marines adopted when they were landed at Vera Cruz proved a very interesting and original mascot, and also that anteaters were not always exactly as they are described in school textbooks, for this anteater disdained to eat ants and greedily devoured anything from the food of the marines that they would give him, or that he could steal--bread, meat, pie, doughnuts, or eggs.

The curved claws of the unheeding anteater fitted around the trunk and the strong prehensile tail flattened against the bark, so that the creature seemed to put forth no more exertion than if walking along a fallen log.

Next moment the mass resolved itself into an animal of enormous size and surprising appearance, which fell heavily into the room, and Like a stream that, spouting from a cliff, Fails in mid-air, but, gathering at the base, Remakes itself, rose to its feet and, advancing to the table, laid a heavy head on the white cloth and lovingly passed its tongue--which resembled that of the great anteater--round a cold chicken conveniently adjacent.

The tamandua anteaters, as typified by _Tamandua_ (or _Uroleptes_) _tetradactyla_, are much smaller than the great anteater, and differ essentially from it in their habits, being mainly arboreal.