Armadillo vs Reindeer - What's the difference?
armadillo | reindeer |
Any of a family of burrowing mammals covered with bony, jointed, protective plates, genus Dasypus .
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As nouns the difference between armadillo and reindeer
is that armadillo is any of a family of burrowing mammals covered with bony, jointed, protective plates, genus dasypus while reindeer is an arctic and subarctic-dwelling deer of the species rangifer tarandus , with a number of subspecies.armadillo
English
Noun
(en-noun)Nick Miroff
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)See also
* scutes * XenarthraExternal links
* (wikipedia "armadillo") ----reindeer
English
(wikipedia reindeer) (Rangifer tarandus)Noun
(en-noun)citation, passage=Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages.}}