Difference between Anteater and Pangolin

What is the difference between Anteater and Pangolin?

Anteater as a noun is any of several animals, in suborder vermilingua, which are noted for eating ants and termites which they catch with their long sticky tongues. while Pangolin as a noun is the scaly anteater; any of several long-tailed, scale-covered mammals of the order pholidota of tropical africa and asia

Anteater

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Any of several animals, in suborder Vermilingua, which are noted for eating ants and termites which they catch with their long sticky tongues. A common term used of some other unrelated species that feed with ants, including pangolin ("scaly anteater"), echidna ("spiny anteater"), aardvark and numbat ("banded anteater").

Pangolin

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The scaly anteater; any of several long-tailed, scale-covered mammals of the order Pholidota of tropical Africa and Asia

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