armadillo : Idioms & Phrases

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fairy armadillo

  • noun very small Argentine armadillo with pale silky hair and pink plates on head and neck
    pichiciego; Chlamyphorus truncatus; chlamyphore; pichiciago.
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giant armadillo

  • noun about three feet long exclusive of tail
    tatu; tatou; Priodontes giganteus.
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Mule armadillo

  • (Zoöl.), a long-eared armadillo (Tatusia hybrida), native of Buenos Ayres; called also mulita. See Illust. under Armadillo.
Webster 1913

nine-banded armadillo

  • noun having nine hinged bands of bony plates; ranges from Texas to Paraguay
    peba; Dasypus novemcinctus; nine-banded armadillo.
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texas armadillo

  • noun having nine hinged bands of bony plates; ranges from Texas to Paraguay
    peba; Dasypus novemcinctus; nine-banded armadillo.
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three-banded armadillo

  • noun South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates
    Tolypeutes tricinctus; apar.
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