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Definitions of armadillo in various dictionaries:
noun - burrowing chiefly nocturnal mammal with body covered with strong horny plates
ARMADILLO - Armadillos are New World placental mammals in the order Cingulata with a leathery armour shell. The Chlamyphoridae and Dasypodidae are the only survi...
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| The "World Encyclopedia of Food" says the nine-banded type of this mammal is "Edible but far from delicious" |
| It's under heavy cover:IDOL ALARM |
| In Texas the most common variety of these armored mammals is the nine-banded one |
| The jointed shell of the southern 3-banded this animal lets it curl up into a hard, tight ball for safety |
| Peba is another name for the 9-banded type of this armored creature that's found in Texas |
| "The Encyclopedia of Mammals" calls it the most heavily armored mammal alive today |
| Species of this mammal living in South America include 6-banded, 3-banded & giant |
| The nine-banded type of this mammal almost always gives birth to quadruplets of the same sex |
| This armored mammal is one of the few known animal hosts for the bacterium that causes leprosy in humans |
| Despite a Texas saying, this burrowing, bony-plated animal isn't "born dead by the side of the road" |
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| Any of several omnivorous, burrowing, edentate mammals (family Dasypodidae), native to southern North America and South America and characterized by an armorlike covering consisting of jointed bony plates. |
| a nocturnal insectivorous mammal that has large claws for digging and a body covered in bony plates. Armadillos are native to Central and South America and one kind is spreading into the southern US. |
| burrowing chiefly nocturnal mammal with body covered with strong horny plates |
| A nocturnal insectivorous mammal that has large claws for digging and a body covered in bony plates. Armadillos are native to Central and South America and one kind is spreading into the southern US. |
| a small animal whose body is covered in hard strips that allow it to roll into a ball when attacked |
| a small animal found in South America, Central America, and in the southern US which has a body covered by hard, bony strips that allow it to curl into a ball to protect itself when attacked |
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Armadillos are New World placental mammals in the order Cingulata with a leathery armour shell. The Chlamyphoridae and Dasypodidae are the only surviving families in the order, which is part of the superorder Xenarthra, along with the anteaters and sloths. The word armadillo means "little armoured one" in Spanish. The Aztecs called them ytchtli [ajototti], Nahuatl for "turtle-rabbit": ytl [ajot] (turtle) and tchtli [totti] (rabbit). The Portuguese word for "armadillo" is tatu which derives from the Tupi language. Similar names are also found in other, especially European, languages. * About nine extant genera and 21 extant species of armadillo have been described, some of which are distinguished by the number of bands on their armour. Their average length is about 75 cm (30 in), including tail. The giant armadillo grows up to 150 cm (59 in) and weighs up to 54 kg (119 lb), while the pink fairy armadillo is a diminutive species, with an overall length of 1315 cm (56 in). All species are n |