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- noun Plural form of
armadillo .
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Examples
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“As John Tower said, only two things occupy the middle of the road, white stripes and dead armadilloes.”
Handicapping the Colorado Senate Seat - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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As John Tower said, only two things occupy the middle of the road, white stripes and dead armadilloes. —
Handicapping the Colorado Senate Seat - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Rats and mice are not particularly susceptible to Hansen's disease, so research on that disease was delayed until a suitable animal analog was found (turned out to be armadilloes).
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America, where, at the present day, we have great sloths and armadilloes and creatures of that kind, what do you find in the newest tertiaries?
Essays 2007
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As this point was the most exposed on the whole line, twenty-one soldiers were stationed here; at sunset they returned from hunting, bringing with them seven deer, three ostriches, and many armadilloes and partridges.
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They had nothing to eat excepting what they could catch, such as ostriches, deer, armadilloes, etc., and their only fuel was the dry stalks of a small plant, somewhat resembling an aloe.
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Of armadilloes three species occur, namely, the Dasypus minutus or pichy, the D. villosus or peludo, and the apar.
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It must have been as large as a rhinoceros: in the structure of its head it comes, according to Mr. Owen, nearest to the Cape Ant-eater, but in some other respects it approaches to the armadilloes.
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They had nothing to eat excepting what they could catch, such as ostriches, deer, armadilloes, etc., and their only fuel was the dry stalks of a small plant, somewhat resembling an aloe.
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It must have been as large as a rhinoceros: in the structure of its head it comes, according to Mr. Owen, nearest to the Cape Ant-eater, but in some other respects it approaches to the armadilloes.
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