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n. 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.

n. Any of a family of burrowing mammals covered with bony, jointed, protective plates, genus Dasypus.

n. Any edentate animal if the family Dasypidæ, peculiar to America. The body and head are incased in an armor composed of small bony plates. The armadillos burrow in the earth, seldom going abroad except at night. When attacked, they curl up into a ball, presenting the armor on all sides. Their flesh is good food. There are several species, one of which (the peba) is found as far north as Texas. See peba, poyou, tatouay.

n. A genus of small isopod Crustacea that can roll themselves into a ball.

n. An American edentate quadruped, of the order Bruta (or Edentata) and suborder Loricata, and of the extant families Tatusiidœ, Dasypodidœ, and Chlamydophoridœ, or of the extinct family Glyptodontidœ, having a hard shell or carapace like a coat of mail, resulting from a peculiar ossification of the integument and the confluence of numerous small scutes.

n. In Crustacea: A genus of isopods, of the family Oniscidœ, including the pillbugs, which can roll themselves into a ball like the mammals called armadillos.

n. A species of this genus; a pill-bug or sow-bug; a kind of wood-louse.

n. A name given to an electric battery composed of copper and zinc elements riveted together, and designed to be worn as a remedy in certain diseases.

n. burrowing chiefly nocturnal mammal with body covered with strong horny plates

edentate   

scute    Xenarthra   

armor   

peba    poyou    tatouay   

cabassous    nine-banded armadillo    dasypus novemcinctus    apar    tatu    pichiciago    texas armadillo    chlamyphore    burmeisteria retusa    peludo   

Amarillo    Camarillo    Hermosillo    Murillo    billow    caudillo    cillo    granillo    pillow    trillo   

tamandua    ant-eater    tortoise    penguin    hedgehog    coati    agouti    nutria    mongoose