armadillo
English Thesaurus
1. burrowing chiefly nocturnal mammal with body covered with strong horny plates (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | edentate, |
| definition | : | primitive terrestrial mammal with few if any teeth; of tropical Central America and South America (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | dasypus novemcinctus, nine-banded armadillo, peba, texas armadillo, |
| definition | : | having nine hinged bands of bony plates; ranges from Texas to Paraguay (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | apar, three-banded armadillo, tolypeutes tricinctus, |
| definition | : | South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | cabassous, cabassous unicinctus, tatouay, |
| definition | : | naked-tailed armadillo of tropical South America (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | euphractus sexcinctus, peludo, poyou, |
| definition | : | Argentine armadillo with six movable bands and hairy underparts (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | giant armadillo, priodontes giganteus, tatou, tatu, |
| definition | : | about three feet long exclusive of tail (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | chlamyphore, chlamyphorus truncatus, fairy armadillo, pichiciago, pichiciego, |
| definition | : | very small Argentine armadillo with pale silky hair and pink plates on head and neck (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | burmeisteria retusa, greater pichiciego, |
| definition | : | of southern South America (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | dasypodidae, family dasypodidae, |
| definition | : | armadillos (noun.animal) |
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