ARMADILLO

Armadillo

Armadillos are New World placental mammals with a leathery armor shell. The Dasypodidae are the only surviving family in the order Cingulata, part of the superorder Xenarthra, along with the anteaters and sloths. The word armadillo means "little armored one" in Spanish. The Aztecs called them āyōtōchtli, Nahuatl for “turtle-rabbit”: āyōtl and tōchtli .

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armadillo

Noun

  1. Any of a family of burrowing mammals covered with bony, jointed, protective plates, genus Dasypus.


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