It rolls up into a ball when threatened

Usage examples of armadillo.

I saw that the armadillo was trying to dig its way out through the kitchen cabinets, away from the light.

At my feet the dog was whimpering in frustration and the armadillo was noisily butting its head against the units.

I looked down at Bolivar, who was trying to choke himself to death on the lead, torn between conflicting desires to torment the armadillo and get out on the street.

Or I would have been able to, had the armadillo not clawed them all to pieces and pissed on them.

I fed the armadillo, which by this time was making the kitchen smell strange, and went to bed, if not to sleep.

It had one source of income: a factory that manufactured stuffed souvenir armadillos, armadillo purses and Gila monster wallets, then sold them to tourists blowing through on the highway.

An armadillo was rooting through the grass in search of its breakfast.

By the time the armadillo had nosed and waddled around the bend in the road, Anna was less than thirty-six inches from the gray and scaly hindquarters.

Finally wised-up, her armadillo scuttled ahead, winning back the ten yards Anna had so cunningly eaten up.

The soldier who had ended her game with the armadillo was Jimmy Williams, a tax lawyer with a firm in Jackson.

Sweetie Pie was after the armadillo that had taken up residence under the front porch.

They raced around the yard, with the armadillo freezing and then dashing off in another direction, with Sweetie hot on its trail.

Once Sweetie grew tired of barking at the armadillo, she followed me up the front steps and to the door.

A deer is seen in Tro-Cortesianus 92d seated on a mat opposite a female figure in the same manner as the armadillo on the same page and a dog on the preceding page.

In it the mother armadillo rears her young until they are large enough to care for themselves.