different between armadillo vs edentate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish armadillo, diminutive of armado (“armored”), in reference to its protective plates.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??m??d?lo?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??m??d?l??/
• Rhymes: -?l??
• Hyphenation: ar?ma?dil?lo

Noun

armadillo (plural armadillos or armadilloes)

1. Any of the burrowing mammals covered with bony, jointed, protective plates, order Cingulata, found in the Americas, especially in South America.

Synonyms

• quirquincho (archaic)

Derived terms

• (order Cingulata): Andean hairy armadillo (Chaetophractus nationi), beautiful armadillo (†Dasypus bellus), big hairy armadillo (Chaetophractus villosus), Chacoan naked-tailed armadillo (Cabassous chacoensis), dwarf armadillo (Zaedyus pichiy), giant armadillo (Priodontes maximus), great long-nosed armadillo (Dasypus kappleri), greater fairy armadillo, greater naked-tailed armadillo, hairy armadillo (Chaetophractus spp.), hairy long-nosed armadillo (Dasypus pilosus), horned armadillo (†Peltephilus), Llanos long-nosed armadillo, long-nosed armadillo (Dasypus spp.), naked-tailed armadillo (Cabassous spp.), nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus), northern horned armadillo, northern three-banded armadillo, pink fairy armadillo (Chlamyphorus truncatus), pygmy armadillo (Zaedyus pichiy), screaming hairy armadillo (Chaetophractus vellerosus), seven-banded armadillo (Dasypus septemcinctus), six-banded armadillo (Euphractus sexcinctus), southern long-nosed armadillo, southern naked-tailed armadillo (Dasypus hybridus), southern three-banded armadillo, Texas armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus), three-banded armadillo (Tolypeutes matacus or Tolypeutes tricinctus), six-banded armadillo (Euphractus sexcinctus)

• armadillo bug (in order Oniscidea)
• armadillo egg

Related terms

• armor

Translations

See also

• scutes
• Xenarthra

Further reading

• armadillo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish armadillo.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /??.m??di.?o/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?r.m??di.?u/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /a?.ma?di.?o/

Noun

armadillo m (plural armadillos)

1. armadillo

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish armadillo.

Noun

armadillo m (plural armadilli)

1. armadillo

Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from English armadillo, from Spanish armadillo, diminutive of armado (“armored”), in reference to its protective plates.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a(r)madilo/
• Rhymes: -ilo, -lo, -o

Noun

armadillo

1. armadillo

Spanish

Etymology

From armado (“armored”) +? -illo (“diminutive”), i.e. "little armored one".

Pronunciation

Noun

armadillo m (plural armadillos)

1. armadillo

   Synonym: (Mexican Indian) ayotoste

Derived terms

Further reading

• “armadillo” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin edentatus.

Adjective

edentate (not comparable)

1. Lacking teeth.

   an edentate quadruped; an edentate leaf

2. (zoology) Belonging to the Edentata.

Translations

Noun

edentate (plural edentates)

1. Any mammal that has few or no teeth, but especially the anteaters, armadillos, and sloths of the former order Edentata.

Translations

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