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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

Alternative forms

• ground-hog
• ground hog

Etymology

ground +? hog

Noun

groundhog (plural groundhogs)

1. A red-brown marmot, Marmota monax, native to North America.

   Synonyms: whistle-pig, woodchuck

2. (rare) The aardvark.

Derived terms

• Groundhog Day, Groundhog's Day
• groundhogese
• Groundhog Lodge

Translations

Further reading

• groundhog on Wikipedia.Wikipedia