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noun, masculine

fourmilier

/fuʁ.mi.lje/

noun, masculine/fuʁ.mi.lje/plural: fourmiliers

anteater; any of a number of different species of ant-eating birds

George Pouchet, Mémoires sur le Grand Fourmilier, Paris 1874, 68It is known that the oral cavity of the anteaters, despite its extremely narrow orifice, reaches considerable extents.

From Italian formigaro. By surface analysis, fourmi (“ant”) + -ier.