Word of the Day – Aardvark

Aardvark (noun)

ard-vahk

A nocturnal badger-sized burrowing mammal of Africa, with long ears, a tubular snout, and a long extensible tongue, feeding on ants and termites.

Late 18th century: from South African Dutch, from aarde ‘earth’ + vark ‘pig’.

Example sentences

“I didn’t know what it was, I’d never seen an aardvark before!”