Definition of Tolypeutes

1. Noun. A genus of Dasypodidae.

Exact synonyms: Genus Tolypeutes
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Dasypodidae, Family Dasypodidae
Member holonyms: Apar, Three-banded Armadillo, Tolypeutes Tricinctus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tolypeutes

Tolkienites
Toll House cookie
Tollywood
Tolmiea
Tolmiea menziesii
Tolomako
Tolosa
Tolosa-Hunt syndrome
Tolstoy
Tolstoyan
Toltec
Toltecs
Tolu balsam
Toluca
Tolyatti
Tolypeutes (current term)
Tolypeutes tricinctus
Tom Bradley
Tom Collins
Tom Collinses
Tom Hanks
Tom Joneses
Tom Paine
Tom Sawyer
Tom Stoppard
Tom Thumb

Literary usage of Tolypeutes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Catalogue of Carnivorous, Pachydermatous, and Edentate Mammalia in the by John Edward Gray (1869)
"Nape without any tesserae. Front claws four, the outer one small, the middle one very large and strong. Dasypus (Tolypeutes) ..."

2. 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 ..."

3. The Collected Scientific Papers of the Late Alfred Henry Garrod by Alfred Henry Garrod, William Alexander Forbes (1881)
"NOTES ON THE ANATOMY OF Tolypeutes TR1- ... THE Society purchased, on the 3rd of October 1877, a younc female living specimen of the Apar (Tolypeutes ..."

4. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1865)
"Tolypeutes. Head with a flat frontal shield, hinder edge prominent ... Tolypeutes, Illiger, Prod. 1811. The underside of the body covered with long bristly ..."

5. The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1876)
"Guiana to Paraguay ; Tolypeutes (2 sp.), the three-banded armadillos, Bolivia and La ... allied to Tolypeutes, is from the Pliocene deposits of La Plata. ..."

6. Transactions of the Linnean Societyby Linnean Society of London, Linnean Society of London Library by Linnean Society of London, Linnean Society of London Library (1867)
"... the three-banded Armadillo (Tolypeutes ... 407 Tolypeutes commis, is. Geoffr., its habits, structure, and relations ..."

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