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Definition of Armadillos
1. armadillo [n] - See also: armadillo
Medical Definition of Armadillos
1. Burrowing, chiefly nocturnal mammals of the family dasypodidae having bodies and heads encased in small bony plates. They are widely distributed in the warmer parts of the americas. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Armadillos
Literary usage of Armadillos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of Animals: The Mammals by Ernest Ingersoll (1907)
"A few sorts of ant-eaters, sloths, and armadillos, — small, frightened, dull-witted
creatures of no practical account—are ..."
2. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1869)
"donts of Brazil, and its gigantic sloths and armadillos, rival the elephants,
rhinoceros, and hippopotami, which, during the same period, roamed the soil of ..."
3. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1887)
"... the other five are shaped so as to resemble huge turtles or armadillos.
All the monuments are covered with elaborate carvings, including huge human ..."
4. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art. by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1869)
"donts of Brazil, and its gigantic sloths and armadillos, rival the elephants,
rhinoceros, and hippopotami, which, during the same period, ..."
5. The Natural & Moral History of the Indies by José de Acosta (1880)
"And as the Dantas be defended by the hardnes of their hides, so those which they
call armadillos are by the multitude of their scales, which open and shut ..."
6. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1866)
"The head of the armadillos is Bat and terminated by a pointed muzzle, ... So rapid
indeed are the armadillos at this operation that they easily bury ..."
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