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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The six-banded armadillo, Dasypus sexcinctus, or D. encoubert. See
armadillo
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A South American armadillo (
Dasypus sexcinctus ). Called alsosixbanded armadillo .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun Argentine armadillo with six movable bands and hairy underparts
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The common armadillo, or the poyou, is about twenty inches in length, including the tail.
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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