armadillo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑɹməˈdɪloʊ/
ipa: /ɑːməˈdɪləʊ/
rhymes: -ɪləʊ
Forms: form: armadillos
form: armadilloes
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-der.
Proto-Indo-European *h₂(e)rmosder.
Latin arma
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin armō
Latin -ātus
Latin armātus
Old Spanish armado
Spanish armado
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -ulus
Latin -ellus
Old Spanish -iello
Spanish -illo
Spanish armadillobor.
English armadillo
Borrowed from Spanish armadillo, diminutive of armado (“armored”) in reference to its protective plates.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32:
glosses: Any of the burrowing mammals covered with bony, jointed, protective plates, families Dasypodidae and Chlamyphoridae in the order Cingulata, found in the Americas, especially in South America.
Synonyms: word: quirquincho
Derived terms: sense: order Cingulata
taxonomic: Chaetophractus nationi
word: Andean hairy armadillo
sense: order Cingulata
alt: †Dasypus bellus
word: beautiful armadillo
sense: order Cingulata
taxonomic: Chaetophractus villosus
word: big hairy armadillo
sense: order Cingulata
taxonomic: Cabassous chacoensis
word: Chacoan naked-tailed armadillo
sense: order Cingulata
taxonomic: Zaedyus pichiy
word: dwarf armadillo
sense: order Cingulata
taxonomic: Priodontes maximus
word: giant armadillo
sense: order Cingulata
taxonomic: Dasypus kappleri
word: great long-nosed armadillo
sense: order Cingulata
word: greater fairy armadillo
sense: order Cingulata
word: greater naked-tailed armadillo
sense: order Cingulata
taxonomic: Chaetophractus spp.
word: hairy armadillo
sense: order Cingulata
taxonomic: Dasypus pilosus
word: hairy long-nosed armadillo
sense: order Cingulata
alt: †Peltephilus
word: horned armadillo
sense: order Cingulata
word: Llanos long-nosed armadillo
sense: order Cingulata
taxonomic: Dasypus spp.
word: long-nosed armadillo
sense: order Cingulata
taxonomic: Cabassous spp.
word: naked-tailed armadillo
sense: order Cingulata
taxonomic: Dasypus novemcinctus
word: nine-banded armadillo
sense: order Cingulata
word: northern horned armadillo
sense: order Cingulata
word: northern three-banded armadillo
sense: order Cingulata
taxonomic: Chlamyphorus truncatus
word: pink fairy armadillo
sense: order Cingulata
taxonomic: Zaedyus pichiy
word: pygmy armadillo
sense: order Cingulata
taxonomic: Chaetophractus vellerosus
word: screaming hairy armadillo
sense: order Cingulata
taxonomic: Dasypus septemcinctus
word: seven-banded armadillo
sense: order Cingulata
taxonomic: Euphractus sexcinctus
word: six-banded armadillo
sense: order Cingulata
word: southern long-nosed armadillo
sense: order Cingulata
taxonomic: Dasypus hybridus
word: southern naked-tailed armadillo
sense: order Cingulata
word: southern three-banded armadillo
sense: order Cingulata
taxonomic: Dasypus novemcinctus
word: Texas armadillo
sense: order Cingulata
alt: Tolypeutes matacus or Tolypeutes tricinctus
word: three-banded armadillo
word: mule armadillo
word: armadillo ant
english: in order Oniscidea
translation: in order Oniscidea
word: armadillo bug
word: armadillo egg
Related terms: armor
scute
Xenarthra