armadillo

en-noun

armadillo (plural armadillos or armadilloes)

armadillos (plural)
armadilloes (plural)

/ɑɹməˈdɪloʊ/

/ɑːməˈdɪləʊ/

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

The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters …. But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna.

2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32:

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

ib’ooy

burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates

three-banded armadillo

Tolypeutes matacus or Tolypeutes tricinctus


apar

The apar is mainly diurnal in its habits; and trusts for defence to its power of rolling itself into a ball, not dwelling in burrows like the members of the other genera.

1895, Richard Lydekker, The Royal Natural History, page 224:

The apars are noted, indeed, for their lively and restless manners.

1907, Ernest Ingersoll, The Life of Animals: The Mammals, page 478:

The three-banded armadillo, Tolypeutes matacus

обыкнови́нный шарово́й бронено́сец


cabassou

(obsolete) The southern naked-tailed armadillo, a type of large armadillo native to South America, with five toes and enormous claws (Cabassous unicinctus).


giant armadillo

giant armadillo (plural giant armadillos)

The largest living species of armadillo, Priodontes maximus


big hairy armadillo

big hairy armadillo (plural big hairy armadillos)

A species of armadillo found in South America, Chaetophractus villosus.


beautiful armadillo

beautiful armadillo (plural beautiful armadillos)

Dasypus bellus
Dasypus bellus#Translingual

An extinct prehistoric species of armadillo, †Dasypus bellus.


peba

Compare Portuguese peba. Ultimately from Old Tupi peba (“having a flattened shape”).

uder

Dasypus novemcinctus
Dasypus novemcinctus#Translingual

An armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) found from Texas to Paraguay; the tatouhou.


encoubert

From French encoubert, from Portuguese encorberto, encuberto (“covered”).

One of several species of armadillo of the genera Dasypus and Euphractus, with five toes on both the fore and the hind feet.


glyptodon

From the New Latin genus name Glyptodon (from Ancient Greek Ancient Greek γλυπτός (gluptós, “sculptured”) + -odon (“tooth”), 'grooved or carved tooth').

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The more striking phenomena first and most strongly impress the mind, which contrasts for example, the great Cave-Bears of Europe with the actual Brown Bear, the Megatheriods of South America with the small existing sloths, and the gigantic Glyptodons with the Armadillos.

1851 June 11, The Geelong Advertiser, Victoria, page 1, column 2:

Statues of beasts stood with their backs to the four walls of the court, eyes turned to watch the canted dial: hulking barylambdas; arctothers, the monarchs of bears; glyptodons; smilodons with fangs like glaives.

1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter IV, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 43:

(paleontology) A member of the genus Glyptodon of extinct giant armadillos.


tolypeutine

(zoology, rare) The apar, a kind of armadillo.


chlamyphore

Ancient Greek χλαμύς (khlamús, “cloak”) + φορός (phorós, “one who bears”)

Chlamyphorus truncatus
Chlamyphorus truncatus#Translingual

(zoology, dated) A small South American armadillo (Chlamyphorus truncatus and Chlamyphorus retusus, now Calyptophractus retusus), covered with a leathery shell.


tatouay

From a compound word in a Tupi-Guarani language (compare tatu-ai), of which the first element is ultimately from Old Tupi tatu (“armadillo”). Compare Portuguese tatu, French tatou. The second element (ay or ai) may mean "wound" because of a belief that its fat was used on wounds, or "colored", or "worthless".

An armadillo (Cabassous tatouay), native to tropical South America; the broad-banded armadillo.


dasypodid

(zoology) Any armadillo in the family Dasypodidae.


glyptodontid

(zoology) Any of the family †Glyptodontidaeof extinct armadillos.


nine-banded armadillo

en-noun

nine-banded armadillo (plural nine-banded armadillos)

A species of armadillo, Dasypus novemcinctus, ranging from much of the southern US to warmer South America.

negenbandgordeldier

armadillo of species Dasypus novemcinctus


xenurine

Any armadillo of the former genus Xenurus (now Cabassous).


pampatheriid

(zoology) Any member of the Pampatheriidae, a family of large extinct armadillo-like plantigrade armoured xenarthrans.


pichiciego

pink fairy armadillo
pink fairy armadillo

A small, burrowing, South American armadillo (Chlamyphorus truncatus); the pink fairy armadillo.


screaming hairy armadillo

screaming hairy armadillo (plural screaming hairy armadillos)

Chaetophractus vellerosus, a burrowing armadillo of South America which squeals when handled or threatened.


mule armadillo

Dasypus hybridus
Dasypus hybridus#Translingual

(archaic) Dasypus hybridus, the southern long-nosed armadillo.


pink fairy armadillo

pink fairy armadillo (plural pink fairy armadillos)

Chlamyphorus truncatus, a species of armadillo native to Argentina.


cingulatan

In contrast, the success of the living pilosans and cingulatans was due to their occupation of relatively narrow niches, which allowed little space for the less specialized newcomers.

2006, David Whyte Macdonald, The Encyclopedia of Mammals:

As a result, in the past, pilosans, cingulatans, and pangolins were frequently combined in the no-longer-recognized order Edentata.

2011, Terry Vaughan, Mammalogy, page 148:

In contrast to what I perceive to be a lack of special similarity in the astragalocalcaneal complex of the Palaeanodonta and Pholidota, the palaeanodont and dasypodid cingulatan derived similarities of these two bones are extremely suggestive of a common ancestral pattern.

2013, Max Hecht, Major Patterns in Vertebrate Evolution, page 352:

(rare) A mammal of the order Cingulata (including the armadillos and other extinct species).


hairy armadillo

hairy armadillo (plural hairy armadillos)

Andean hairy armadillo
Andean hairy armadillo

Certain species of armadillo found in South America.

of species of Chaetophractus (family Chlamyphoridae)

Andean hairy armadillo (Chaetophractus nationi), present in Bolivia

big hairy armadillo (Chaetophractus villosus), one of the largest and most numerous armadillos in southern South America; peludo

screaming hairy armadillo
screaming hairy armadillo

screaming hairy armadillo (Chaetophractus vellerosus), a burrowing armadillo found in the central and southern parts of South America

Dasypus pilosus
Dasypus pilosus#Translingual

hairy long-nosed armadillo (Dasypus pilosus) (family Dasypodidae), endemic to Peru


Andean hairy armadillo

Andean hairy armadillo (plural Andean hairy armadillos)

A species of armadillo, Chaetophractus nationi, found in western Bolivia and adjacent areas of South America.


pampathere

Any extinct armadillo of the family †Pampatheriidae


Hoover hog

Herbert Hoover + hog, because impoverished people were reduced to (and Hoover himself may have suggested) eating such animals during the Great Depression which Hoover presided over the start of.

Sometimes living on rabbits and squirrels , they described their fare as Hoover hogs. The President's rigid stand on the relief issue widened the gap between the Old Guard and the insurgents in the Republican party, and his differences with ...

1971, Richard Brandon Morris, William Greenleaf, Robert H. Ferrell, America: a History of the People:

[It] rises . . . a jackrabbit. A Hoover hog, long-eared, light in the front legs, strong in the rear. The jack stretches his heels and takes the hill in a few bounds. When last seen, he is heading east.

"Some folks are lonesome all their life and some are hungry . We ain't ever needed to eat a Hoover hog (an opossum) since we come to the Creek.” With humor , Bernie lamented that the only thing missing in his life was a new pickup truck.

1993, The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Journal of Florida Literature:

"It's a Hoover hog!" "Give it here," said Simeon Vear. Jimmy started to pick up the entire trap." Just the animal." Jimmy pushed his hand into the trap. "Don't," I said. "Let him," said Simeon Vear. "Got him," said Jimmy. He pulled the nervous rabbit […]

“[You don't have] to eat anything I fix again if you don't want to,” Jason McTavish spat. “I was surprised as everyone when Howard choked. That steak wasn't tougher than normal — for antelope.” “ If you'd stewed up a Hoover hog instead of that stringy[…]”

2007, Ken Hodgson, The Man Who Killed Shakespeare, ME: Five Star, →ISBN:

Aunt Cora, Mom's sister, always seemed to have rabbits or squirrels—Hoover hogs, she called them—or a greasy ole' barbecued raccoon for supper.

2010, Carroll Osburn, The Edge of the Wedge: Recollections of a Reluctant Prodigal, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 23:

“We'e gonna catch us a Hoover Hog, s'first thing,” said Carl. “A Hoover Hog? What's a Hoover Hog?” “You ain't never heard of a Hoover Hog? You'll see,” said Carl. They trudged along, keeping the conversation to a minimum, […]

2013, W. Jeff Bishop, A Cold Coming, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 215:

(US, especially Southern US) An animal which is eaten by poor people during hard times, especially an armadillo or jackrabbit, but also a possum or squirrel.


chlamydophore

Any of the genus Chlamyphorus of armadillos.


euphractine

Any of the armadillos of the Euphractinae.