Armadillo Sentence Examples

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  • One of the characteristic orders of the Brazilian fauna is that of the Edentata, which comprises the sloth, armadillo and ant-eater.

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  • Armadillos are omnivorous, feeding on roots, insects, worms, reptiles and carrion, and are mostly, though not universally, Peba Armadillo (Tatusia novemcincta).

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  • Even the pink fairy armadillo makes a guest appearance.

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  • You get to build structures with the aim of getting an armadillo to a blue sphere.

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  • The last is remarkable for an extraordinary endoand exo-skeletal carapace, Dissorhophus being described by Cope (13) as a "batrachian armadillo."

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  • These include an armadillo, an elephant, a squid, as well as mermaids and other imaginary creatures.

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  • He also relates traditional narratives, including the Dreams of Abundance and the story of the giant armadillo.

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  • The shrunken hairy beige armadillo happily sniffed at the three-day old spam fritter.

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  • Immediately I saw this I thought they must belong to an enormous armadillo, living species of which genus are so abundant here.

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  • Luis found an armadillo, which he picked up and turned upside down so we could all gawp at it.

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  • Perhaps you want to have a pet that your parents absolutely refused you as a kid, such as a pony, armadillo or a dragon.

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  • If the groom is into armadillos, then by all means he should have a cake in the shape of an armadillo.

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  • The animals are few, comprising a land tortoise, the armadillo, a species of boa, several poisonous snakes and some woodcock.

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  • There's a scene in Steel Magnolias when all of the women are in Truvy's beauty shop discussing the groom's cake, a red velvet affair with gray icing in the shape of an armadillo.

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  • Many people didn't know about the groom's cake until they saw the movie Steel Magnolias, in which a red velvet groom's cake in the shape of an armadillo has a supporting role.

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  • Armadillo eggs, fried pickles and seafood-stuffed jalapenos are just a few of the appetizers available on the menu.

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  • A little armadillo, the mulita, is the living representative of the antediluvian giants Mylodon, Megatherium, &c. The ostrich-Rhea americana-roams everywhere in the plains; and there are a few specimens of the vulture tribe, a native crow (lean, tall and ruffed), partridges and quails.

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  • The range of the sloth is from the Guianas south into Minas Geraes, the armadillo as far south as the Argentine pampas and the ant-eater from the Amazon south to Paraguay, though it is found in the Amazon region principally.

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  • The sloth, armadillo, opossum, skunk and a species of fox complete the list of the more common quadrupeds so far as known, though it is certain that a careful biological survey would discover many others.

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  • An armadillo stared at them from a rocky ledge as they passed, and a doe and her fawn darted across the trail not more than a hundred yards ahead, disappearing into the brush.

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  • It is the northernmost home of the armadillo, ocelot, jaguar, red and grey cats, and the spiny pocket mouse, and in southern Texas especially it is visited by several species of tropical birds.

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  • The huge glyptodon once inhabited this region, which now possesses the smallest armadillo known, the " quirquincho " or Dasypus minutus.

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  • The agouti and the armadillo are practically extinct and the only other mammals are ground squirrels, rats, a few other small rodents, and some bats.

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  • The peccary (Tayassu angulatum), the armadillo (Tatu novemcinctum), the civet-cat (Bassariscus astutus flavus), the Mexican bighorn (Ovis mexicanus) and the jaguar are Mexican species found in southern or south-western Texas.

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