单词 | peba |
释义 | peban. A long-nosed armadillo of the genus Dasypus; esp. the nine-banded armadillo, D. novemcinctus. Also peba armadillo. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Edentata > [noun] > family Dasypodidae (armadillo) > member of genus Dasypus hog in armour1729 tatouete1753 mule armadillo1827 pichi1827 peba1834 poyou1834 tatouay1834 tatouhou1834 tatou-peba1834 tatou-poyou1834 1834 Penny Cycl. II. 352 The peba..called by the Guaranis tatouhou, or black tatu, is extremely common in Paraguay. 1834 Penny Cycl. II. 352 The length of the peba, from the snout to the origin of the tail, is about sixteen inches, that of the tail fourteen... It is commonly called in Brazil, tatu-peba. 1893 St. G. Mivart Types Animal Life (1894) 259 The peba or nine-banded armadillo ranges from Paraguay to Texas. 1913 Amer. Naturalist 47 514 There is scarcely a doubt that the North American armadillos are all derivatives of the Peba armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) of South America, a species of wide range, occurring from Panama to Paraguay. 1997 Sci. Amer. Sept. 16/2 To extend those findings, she turned to the nine-banded armadillo, or peba. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1834 |
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