aardvark
noun/ˈɑːdvɑːk/
/ˈɑːrdvɑːrk/
- an animal from southern Africa that has a long nose and tongue and that eats insectsTopics Animalsc2Word Originlate 18th cent.: from South African Dutch, from aarde ‘earth’ + vark ‘pig’.
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