chlamyphore
English
Etymology
Ancient Greek χλαμύς (khlamús, “cloak”) + φορός (phorós, “one who bears”)
Noun
chlamyphore (plural chlamyphores)
- (zoology) A small South American armadillo (Chlamyphorus truncatus and Chlamyphorus retusus, now Calyptophractus retusus), covered with a leathery shell.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for chlamyphore in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)