tamanduá-mirim

== Portuguese == === Alternative forms === tamanduá mirim (misspelling) === Etymology === From tamanduá (“anteater”) +‎ mirim (“small”). The term is not attested in Old Tupi, which called it tamandûa'i, and appears only once in written Nheengatu, in 1910. === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: ta‧man‧du‧á‧-mi‧rim === Noun === tamanduá-mirim m (plural tamanduás-mirins) (Brazil) southern tamandua (Tamandua tetradactyla) Synonym: tamanduá-de-colete (obsolete) silky anteater (Cyclopes didactylus) Synonym: tamanduaí === References === === Further reading === “tamanduá-mirim”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “tamanduá-mirim”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026 “tamanduá-mirim”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026 “tamanduá-mirim”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN