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Definition of Peludo
1. Noun. Argentine armadillo with six movable bands and hairy underparts.
Generic synonyms: Armadillo
Group relationships: Euphractus, Genus Euphractus
Definition of Peludo
1. n. The South American hairy armadillo (Dasypus villosus).
Medical Definition of Peludo
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Peludo
Literary usage of Peludo
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Argentine Plains and Andine Glaciers: Life on an Estancia, and an Expedition by Walter Larden (1911)
"At Santa Isabel I saw only one sort, the peludo (" hairy "); I saw these alive
several times, and their holes were all over the camp : in fact, ..."
2. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1890)
"Reasoning as I had done the previous night, he leveled his gun and pulled the
trigger just as the peludo emerged from the shadow into the full light of the ..."
3. The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson (1916)
"Del hombre que sale poco de su casa, dice: «como peludo en la cueva»;27 al ...
peludo means here armadillo, alluding to this animal's habit of hiding in its ..."
4. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin (1909)
"The four species have nearly similar habits; the peludo, however, is nocturnal,
while the others wander by day over the open plains, feeding on beetles, ..."
5. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"The four species have nearly similar habits; the peludo, however, is nocturnal,
while the others wander by day over the open plains, feeding on beetles, ..."
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