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Definition of Three-banded armadillo
1. Noun. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
Generic synonyms: Armadillo
Group relationships: Genus Tolypeutes, Tolypeutes
Lexicographical Neighbors of Three-banded Armadillo
Literary usage of Three-banded armadillo
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"2. LESSER ANT-EATER (Tamanduá tetradactyla). tus); walking and rolled up. 1.
GREAT ANT-EATER (Myrmecophaga Jubata). 4-5. three-banded armadillo (Tolypeutes ..."
2. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"LXXI, A. (The three-banded armadillo.) Three intermediate bands; tail very short,
and the compartments regularly tuberculated. By enclosing its head and ..."
3. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"LXXI, A. (The three-banded armadillo.) Three intermediate bands; tail very short,
and the compartments regularly tuberculated. By enclosing its head and ..."
4. Popular Zoology by Joel Dorman Steele, John Whipple Potter Jenks (1887)
"three-banded armadillo. (,y,.) FIG. 314. ... or three-banded armadillo, does not
burrow, but for defense rolls itself into a ball. ..."
5. List of the Vertebrated Animals Now Or Lately Living in the Gardens of the by London Zoo (London, England), Philip Lutley Sclater (1883)
"three-banded armadillo. Hob. La Plata. a. Received in exchange, March 4, 1805.
... Brazilian three-banded armadillo. Hab. Brazil. . a. Purchased, Nov. ..."
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