Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of armadillo, Dasypus tatouay or Xenurus unicinctus. See cut under
Xenurus .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) An armadillo (
Xenurus unicinctus ), native of the tropical parts of South America. It has about thirteen movable bands composed of small, nearly square, scales. The head is long; the tail is round and tapered, and nearly destitute of scales; the claws of the fore feet are very large. Called alsotatouary , andbroad-banded armadillo .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
armadillo (Xenurus unicinctus), native totropical South America ; the broad-banded armadillo.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun naked-tailed armadillo of tropical South America
Etymologies
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Of Brazilian origin; compare Portuguese tatu, French tatou.
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