ARMADILLO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does armadillo mean? 

• ARMADILLO (noun)
  The noun ARMADILLO has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: ARMADILLO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARMADILLO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Burrowing chiefly nocturnal mammal with body covered with strong horny plates

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("armadillo" is a kind of...):

edentate (primitive terrestrial mammal with few if any teeth; of tropical Central America and South America)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "armadillo"):

Dasypus novemcinctus; nine-banded armadillo; peba; Texas armadillo (having nine hinged bands of bony plates; ranges from Texas to Paraguay)

apar; three-banded armadillo; Tolypeutes tricinctus (South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates)

cabassous; Cabassous unicinctus; tatouay (naked-tailed armadillo of tropical South America)

Euphractus sexcinctus; peludo; poyou (Argentine armadillo with six movable bands and hairy underparts)

giant armadillo; Priodontes giganteus; tatou; tatu (about three feet long exclusive of tail)

chlamyphore; Chlamyphorus truncatus; fairy armadillo; pichiciago; pichiciego (very small Argentine armadillo with pale silky hair and pink plates on head and neck)

Burmeisteria retusa; greater pichiciego (of southern South America)

Holonyms ("armadillo" is a member of...):

Dasypodidae; family Dasypodidae (armadillos)

 Context examples 

This allele, which encodes armadillo repeat protein deleted in velo-cardio-facial syndrome, plays a role in cell adhesion.

(ARVCF wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

A taxonomic order of mammals with armor-like exoskeletons, of which the only surviving member is the armadillo.

(Cingulata, NCI Thesaurus)

Armadillo repeat protein deleted in velo-cardio-facial syndrome (962 aa, ~105 kDa) is encoded by the human ARVCF gene.

(Armadillo Repeat Protein Deleted In Velo-Cardio-Facial Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

Presently it gave a warning snort, and was off with its family among the reeds, while the armadillos also scuttled for shelter.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A huge deer, with branching horns, a magnificent creature which carried itself like a king, came down with its doe and two fawns and drank beside the armadillos.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Two creatures like large armadillos had come down to the drinking-place, and were squatting at the edge of the water, their long, flexible tongues like red ribbons shooting in and out as they lapped.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)