Citations:myrmecophage

English

 * 1822, Mungo Park and John Barrow, Travels in the interior of Africa, page 423:
 * The body of a child is placed in an ant's hill, which has been excavated by the myrmecophage, or ant eaters, but these are the only classes on which any kind of sepulture is bestowed.
 * 1984, Alan Dean Foster, Voyage to the City of the Dead, page 113:
 * In other respects the Tsla were very human, if one discounted the six-fingered hands, six-fingered toes [sic], and myrmecophagous face.
 * 2000, Thomas J. Givnish, Kenneth Jay Sytsma, Molecular Evolution and Adaptive Radiation, page 328:
 * … the common eutherian armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus), “obviously” a myrmecophage judging from its almost featureless, peglike teeth, but in fact a notorious omnivore, at least in North America.
 * 2006, Kenneth David Rose, The beginning of the age of mammals, page 204:
 * The skull and jaws of Eomanis indicate that it should have been an obligate myrmecophage, yet surprisingly, only one of the several Messel skeletons that preserve gut contents reveals any insect chitin (Storch and Richter, 1992).

French

 * 1780, Jacques C Valmont de Bomare, Dictionnaire raisonné universel d'histoire naturelle, 4th edition, volume 6, page 461:
 * MANGEUR DE FOURMIS ou MYRMECOPHAGE. Voyez Fourmillier.
 * 1813, Claude Marie Gattel, Dictionnaire universel portatif de la langue Française, 2nd edition, volume 2, page 217:
 * MYRMECOPHAGE, adj. (Mir-mé-co-fa-je) qui mange des fourmis, qui vit de fourmis. (Du gree murmêx, génitif murmekos fourmi.)