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Definition of Nine-banded armadillo
1. Noun. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates; ranges from Texas to Paraguay.
Generic synonyms: Armadillo
Group relationships: Dasypus, Genus Dasypus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nine-banded Armadillo
Literary usage of Nine-banded armadillo
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1916)
"'io Development of the nine-banded armadillo from the Primitive ... Newman, HH '13
The Natural History of the nine-banded armadillo of Texas. Amer. Nat. ..."
2. Inbreeding and Outbreeding: Their Genetic and Sociological Significance by Edward Murray East, Donald Forsha Jones (1919)
"Identical quadruplets in the nine-banded armadillo. Doncaster.) (After Newman
from The chief support of this idea of sex determination, however, ..."
3. Memoirs of the Connecticut Academy of Arts & Sciences by Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, Yale University (1911)
"The three regions of the carapace are almost as distinct as in the nine- banded
armadillo, but Cabassous is not quite so large and its head, ears and tail ..."
4. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"(The nine-banded armadillo.) With nine, sometimes eight intermediate bands,
generally blackish ; the body fifteen inches in length, and the tail the same. ..."
5. Popular Zoology by Joel Dorman Steele, John Whipple Potter Jenks (1887)
"The so-called nine-banded armadillo, which may have from six to ten Bands, abounds
in Central America, and is domesticated to ..."
6. Secrets of Animal Life by John Arthur Thomson (1919)
"But it is not by the dislocation of the first four cells that the quadruplets of
the nine-banded armadillo arise. What happens is that in a single embryonic ..."
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