Assertion: beaked echidna | /r/Synonym | the spiny anteater
Facets:
value: commonly
type: TEMPORAL
value: in older books
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: The Short-beaked Echidna is also known as the Spiny Anteater and is one of only two members of the monotreme family.
text: The short-beaked echidna, Tachyglossus, is the spiny anteater because they eat ants and termites.
text: Also known as spiny anteaters, short-beaked echidnas use their snouts and long tongues to catch ants, termites, spiders, worms and other invertebrates.
text: The short-beaked echidna was commonly called the spiny anteater in older books, though this term has fallen out of fashion since the echidna bears no relation to the true anteaters.
text: Short-beak: The Short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus), also known as the Spiny anteater because of its diet of ants and termites, is one of four living species of echidna and the only member of the genus Tachyglossus.