Translingual

Proper noun

Dasypus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Dasypodidae – the surviving genus of armadillos.

Synonyms

• (genus): Cachicama, Cachicamus, Cataphractus, Cryptophractus, Hyperoambon, Loricatus, Muletia, Praopus, Tatu, Tatua, Tatus Olfers, Tatusia Lesson, Zonoplites - genera

Hypernyms

• (genus): Mammalia - class; Trechnotheria - subclass; Zatheria - infraclass; Theria - supercohort; Placentalia - cohort; Xenarthra - superorder; Cingulata - order; Dasypodidae - family

Hyponyms

• (genus): Dasypus novemcinctus - type species; Dasypus hybridus, Dasypus kappleri, Dasypus pilosus, Dasypus sabanicola, Dasypus septemcinctus, Dasypus yepesi - species

Latin

Noun

dasypūs c ‎(genitive dasypodis); third declension

1. a kind of rabbit

See also

• cunīculus
• lepus

References

• dasypus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “dasypus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.