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Armadillo vs Reindeer - What's the difference?

armadillo | reindeer |

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)
  • Any of a family of burrowing mammals covered with bony, jointed, protective plates, genus Dasypus .
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    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 * Xenarthra

    reindeer

    English

    (wikipedia reindeer) (Rangifer tarandus)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • An arctic and subarctic-dwelling deer of the species Rangifer tarandus , with a number of subspecies.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-03
  • , author=Nancy Langston , title=Mining the Boreal North , volume=101, issue=2, page=98 , magazine= 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.}}

    Hyponyms

    * caribou

    Derived terms

    * arctic reindeer * Finnish forest reindeer * mountain reindeer * Siberian forest reindeer * Siberian reindeer * Svalbard reindeer * wild reindeer