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noun, masculine

fourmilier

/fuʁ.mi.lje/

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

fourmilier is masculine in French.

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

“George Pouchet, Mémoires sur le Grand Fourmilier, Paris 1874, 68” — It 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.