Crossword clues for armadillos
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Armadillo \Ar`ma*dil"lo\ ([aum]r`m[.a]*d[i^]l"l[-o]), n.; pl. Armadillos (-l[=o]z). [Sp. armadillo, dim. of armado armed, p. p. of armar to arm. So called from being armed with a bony shell.] (Zo["o]l.)
Any edentate animal if the family Dasypid[ae], peculiar to America. The body and head are incased in an armor composed of small bony plates. The armadillos burrow in the earth, seldom going abroad except at night. When attacked, they curl up into a ball, presenting the armor on all sides. Their flesh is good food. There are several species, one of which (the peba) is found as far north as Texas. See Peba, Poyou, Tatouay.
A genus of small isopod Crustacea that can roll themselves into a ball.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of armadillo English)
Usage examples of "armadillos".
Before The Day he had heard someone say that there were several hundred thousand armadillos in Florida.
This was strange, because before the first boom there had been no armadillos at all.
Knowing nothing of the habits of armadillos, the real estate man had penned them behind chicken wire.
When darkness fell, the armadillos instantly burrowed out, and within a few years armadillos were undermining golf greens and dumping over citrus trees from St.
In August they ran out of salt, armadillos destroyed the yam crop, and the fish stopped biting.
She had even walked to town with Ben and helped him locate the books in the library that told about armadillos.
Seeing that the armadillos intended to set the ladder against the railing on the other side of the room, Neena rushed around the walkway and prepared to confront them.
This satisfying missile struck one of the armadillos square on the forehead.
It was a small thing on the scale of the invasion, but he thanked God for armadillos.
There was no legal service that allowed them and it was open season on armadillos who advertised having them, but every so often MSP got a case involving such weapons.
Once the Harney Armadillos started kicking ass on the basketball court, the local alumnae decided that the school needed an actual mascot, something on the order of the famous San Diego Chicken, only cheaper.
On the evening of January 12 the Harney Armadillos were all set to play the Valencia Cropdusters in a battle for first place in the mid-state Four-A division.
For two days they travelled through the thick brush country, a country where there were many armadillos.
We made good time, and there was an abundance of easily killable game for food—rabbits, iguanas, armadillos—and the climate was comfortable for nighttime camping, so we did not sleep in any of the villages of the Mixe people whose territory we were then traversing.
Two creatures like large armadillos had come down to the drinking-place, and were squatting at the edge of the water, their long, flexible tongues like red ribbons shooting in and out as they lapped.