English > armadillo: 1 sense > noun 1, animal| Meaning | burrowing chiefly nocturnal mammal with body covered with strong horny plates. |
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| Member of | Dasypodidae, family Dasypodidae | armadillos |
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| Narrower | apar, three-banded armadillo, Tolypeutes tricinctus | South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates |
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| giant armadillo, tatou, tatu, Priodontes giganteus | About three feet long exclusive of tail |
| greater pichiciego, Burmeisteria retusa | Of southern South America |
| peba, nine-banded armadillo, Texas armadillo, Dasypus novemcinctus | Having nine hinged bands of bony plates |
| peludo, poyou, Euphractus sexcinctus | Argentine armadillo with six movable bands and hairy underparts |
| pichiciago, pichiciego, fairy armadillo, chlamyphore, Chlamyphorus truncatus | Very small Argentine armadillo with pale silky hair and pink plates on head and neck |
| tatouay, cabassous, Cabassous unicinctus | naked-tailed armadillo of tropical South America |
| Broader | edentate | Primitive terrestrial / terrestrial mammal with few if any teeth |
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| Spanish | armadillo, ayotoste, cachicamo, cusuco, dasypodidae, gurre, pitero, quirquincho, tatú, toche |
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| Catalan | armadillo |
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