armadillo

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

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɑɹməˈdɪloʊ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɑːməˈdɪləʊ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪləʊ
• Hyphenation: ar‧ma‧dil‧lo

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

     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.

• quirquincho (archaic)

• (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)
• mule armadillo

• armadillo ant
• armadillo bug (in order Oniscidea)
• armadillo egg

• armor

• scute
• Xenarthra

•   armadillo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from Spanish armadillo.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ər.məˈði.ʎu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ər.məˈði.ʎo]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [aɾ.maˈði.ʎo]

armadillo m (plural armadillos)

1. armadillo

Borrowed from Spanish armadillo.

armadillo m (plural armadilli)

1. armadillo

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

• IPA^(key): /a(r)madilo/
• Rhymes: -ilo, -lo, -o

armadillo

1. armadillo

From armado (“armored”) +‎ -illo (“diminutive”), i.e. "little armored one".

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• Syllabification: ar‧ma‧di‧llo

armadillo m (plural armadillos)

1. armadillo

   Synonyms: (Mexican Indian) ayotoste, cachicamo

• “armadillo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28