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Definition of Giant armadillo
1. Noun. About three feet long exclusive of tail.
Definition of Giant armadillo
1. Noun. The largest living species of armadillo, ''Priodontes maximus '' ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Giant Armadillo
Literary usage of Giant armadillo
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)
"Of the typical armadillos the leader is the "giant" armadillo of the Amazon
Valley, which may measure three feet from its ..."
2. Introduction to Mammalia by Charles Hamilton Smith (1858)
"Finally, we have the Priodontes of F. Cuvier, Das. gigas, or giant armadillo,
with long tuberculous tail, very large trenchant claws, and with twenty-two or ..."
3. The Polar and Tropical Worlds: A Description of Man and Nature in the Polar by Georg Hartwig (1872)
"But even'the giant armadillo is a pigmy when compared to the extinct mail-clad
animals, which at times of unknown antiquity peopled the plains of South ..."