armadillo
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nine-banded armadillo
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish armadillo, diminutive of armado (“armored”), in reference to its protective plates.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɑɹməˈdɪloʊ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɑːməˈdɪləʊ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪləʊ
- Hyphenation: ar‧ma‧dil‧lo
Noun
armadillo (plural armadillos or armadilloes)
- Any of the burrowing mammals covered with bony, jointed, protective plates, order Cingulata, found in the Americas, especially in South America.
- 2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32:
- The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters …. But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna.
Synonyms
- quirquincho (archaic)
Derived terms
- (order Cingulata): Andean hairy armadillo (Chaetophractus nationi), beautiful armadillo (†Dasypus bellus), big hairy armadillo (Chaetophractus villosus), Chacoan naked-tailed armadillo (Cabassous chacoensis), dwarf armadillo (Zaedyus pichiy), giant armadillo (Priodontes maximus), great long-nosed armadillo (Dasypus kappleri), greater fairy armadillo, greater naked-tailed armadillo, hairy armadillo (Chaetophractus spp.), hairy long-nosed armadillo (Dasypus pilosus), horned armadillo (†Peltephilus), Llanos long-nosed armadillo, long-nosed armadillo (Dasypus spp.), naked-tailed armadillo (Cabassous spp.), nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus), northern horned armadillo, northern three-banded armadillo, pink fairy armadillo (Chlamyphorus truncatus), pygmy armadillo (Zaedyus pichiy), screaming hairy armadillo (Chaetophractus vellerosus), seven-banded armadillo (Dasypus septemcinctus), six-banded armadillo (Euphractus sexcinctus), southern long-nosed armadillo, southern naked-tailed armadillo (Dasypus hybridus), southern three-banded armadillo, Texas armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus), three-banded armadillo (Tolypeutes matacus or Tolypeutes tricinctus), six-banded armadillo (Euphractus sexcinctus)
- mule armadillo
- armadillo ant
- armadillo bug (in order Oniscidea)
- armadillo egg
Related terms
Translations
burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
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Further reading
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish armadillo.
Pronunciation
Noun
armadillo m (plural armadillos)
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish armadillo.
Noun
armadillo m (plural armadilli)
Malay
Etymology
Borrowed from English armadillo, from Spanish armadillo, diminutive of armado (“armored”), in reference to its protective plates.
Pronunciation
Noun
armadillo
Spanish
Etymology
From armado (“armored”) + -illo (“diminutive”), i.e. "little armored one".
Pronunciation
Audio (Colombia): (file)
- Syllabification: ar‧ma‧di‧llo
Noun
armadillo m (plural armadillos)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “armadillo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014