armadillo
English
Noun
(en-noun)
Any of a family of burrowing mammals covered with bony, jointed, protective plates, genus Dasypus .
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-26, author= Nick Miroff
, volume=189, issue=7, page=32, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Mexico gets a taste for eating insects […]
, passage=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.}}
Hyponyms
* (Andean hairy armadillo), beautiful armadillo, big hairy armadillo, (Chacoan naked-tailed armadillo), (dwarf armadillo), giant armadillo, (great long-nosed armadillo), (greater fairy armadillo), (greater naked-tailed armadillo), (hairy armadillo), (hairy long-nosed armadillo), (horned armadillo), (Llanos long-nosed armadillo), (naked-tailed armadillo), nine-banded armadillo, (northern horned armadillo), (northern three-banded armadillo), pink fairy armadillo, screaming hairy armadillo, (seven-banded armadillo), (six-banded armadillo), (southern long-nosed armadillo), (southern naked-tailed armadillo), (southern three-banded armadillo), (Texas armadillo), (three-banded armadillo)
Related terms
* armor
See also
* scutes
* Xenarthra
