How to pronounce aardwolf
American English pronunciation
ARD-woolf
- IPA
- /ˈɑɹdwʊlf/
- Syllables
- ARD · woolf (2 syllables, stress on the 1st)
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What aardwolf means
A small, striped African hyena that eats termites
In a sentence: At night the aardwolf licked up thousands of termites from the dry ground.
Where it comes from: It comes from Afrikaans and means earth wolf, probably because it rests in burrows in the ground during the day.
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