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Noun: three-banded armadillo
  1. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates
    "The apar, or three-banded armadillo, can roll into an almost perfect sphere"; "The Tolypeutes tricinctus, or three-banded armadillo, can roll into an almost perfect sphere";
    - apar, Tolypeutes tricinctus

Derived forms: three-banded armadillos

Type of: armadillo

Part of: genus Tolypeutes, Tolypeutes

Encyclopedia: Three-banded armadillo