ARMADILLO

Pronunciation (US):

• ARMADILLO (noun)
  The noun ARMADILLO has 1 sense:

1. burrowing chiefly nocturnal mammal with body covered with strong horny plates

  Familiarity information: ARMADILLO used as a noun is very rare.

• ARMADILLO (noun)

Meaning:

Burrowing chiefly nocturnal mammal with body covered with strong horny plates

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("armadillo" is a kind of...):

edentate (primitive terrestrial mammal with few if any teeth; of tropical Central America and South America)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "armadillo"):

Dasypus novemcinctus; nine-banded armadillo; peba; Texas armadillo (having nine hinged bands of bony plates; ranges from Texas to Paraguay)

apar; three-banded armadillo; Tolypeutes tricinctus (South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates)

cabassous; Cabassous unicinctus; tatouay (naked-tailed armadillo of tropical South America)

Euphractus sexcinctus; peludo; poyou (Argentine armadillo with six movable bands and hairy underparts)

giant armadillo; Priodontes giganteus; tatou; tatu (about three feet long exclusive of tail)

chlamyphore; Chlamyphorus truncatus; fairy armadillo; pichiciago; pichiciego (very small Argentine armadillo with pale silky hair and pink plates on head and neck)

Burmeisteria retusa; greater pichiciego (of southern South America)

Holonyms ("armadillo" is a member of...):

Dasypodidae; family Dasypodidae (armadillos)