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Any edentate animal if the family Dasypidae, 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.
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Pertaining to the Dasypaedes; ptilopaedic.
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A tree of the genus Acer, including about fifty species. A. saccharinum is the rock maple, or sugar maple, from the sap of which sugar is made, in the United States, in great quantities, by evaporation; the red or swamp maple is A. rubrum; the silver maple, A. dasycarpum, having fruit wooly when young; the striped maple, A. Pennsylvanium, called also moosewood. The common maple of Europe is A. campestre, the sycamore maple is A. Pseudo-platanus, and the Norway maple is A. platanoides.
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A suborder of carnivorous and insectivorous marsupials including the dasyures and the opossums.
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A large sting ray (Dasybatis, / Trygon, Sayi) native of the Southern United States. It is destitute of large spines on the body and tail.
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A rodent of the genus Dasyprocta, about the size of a rabbit, peculiar to South America and the West Indies. The most common species is the Dasyprocta agouti.
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Dasypaedic.
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A marsupial of Australia (Dasyurus macrurus), about the size of a cat.
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Those birds whose young are covered with down when hatched.
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A carnivorous marsupial quadruped of Australia, belonging to the genus Dasyurus. There are several species.
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Pertaining to, or like, the dasyures.
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An instrument for testing the density of gases, consisting of a thin glass globe, which is weighed in the gas or gases, and then in an atmosphere of known density.
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A small species of agouti (Dasyprocta acouchy).
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Having nearly the whole surface of the skin covered with down; dasypaedic; -- said of the young of certain birds.
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Same as Dasypaedes.
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Having gular teeth formed by a peculiar modification of the inferior spines of some of the vertebrae, as certain South African snakes (Dasypeltis) which swallow birds' eggs and use these gular teeth to crush them.
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A South American armadillo (Dasypus sexcinctus). Called also sixbanded armadillo.
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The South American hairy armadillo (Dasypus villosus).
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A Brazilian armadillo (Dasypus minutus); the little armadillo.
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One of several species of armadillos of the genera Dasypus and Euphractus, having five toes both on the fore and hind feet.
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