. Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps. the Spanish-Americanname now imported into English, of va-rious mammalia belonging to the orderedentata, the family dasypodidse, and itstypical genus dasypus. The name arma-dillo, implying that they are in armor,is applied to these animals because theupper part of their body is covered withlarge, strong scales or plates, forming ahelmet for their head, a buckler for theirshoulders, transverse bands for theirback, and in some species a series ofrings for the protection of
. Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps. the Spanish-Americanname now imported into English, of va-rious mammalia belonging to the orderedentata, the family dasypodidse, and itstypical genus dasypus. The name arma-dillo, implying that they are in armor,is applied to these animals because theupper part of their body is covered withlarge, strong scales or plates, forming ahelmet for their head, a buckler for theirshoulders, transverse bands for theirback, and in some species a series ofrings for the protection of their tail. Thefore feet are admirably adapted for dig-ging, and the animal, when it sees dan-ger, can extemporize a hole and vanishinto it with wonderful rapidity. If ac-tually captured, it rolls itself into a ball,withdrawing its head and feet under itsstrong armor. There are several species—such as the great armadillo, or tatu(dasypus gigas), the three-banded ar-madillo, or apara (D. apar), the six- banded armadillo (D. sexcinctus), andthe hairy armadillo (D. villostis). Theyfeed chiefly on ants and other insects. ARMADILLO and worms, and are peculiar to SouthAmerica. It is also the name of a genus of crus-taceans belonging to the order isopoda,and the family oniscidx, the type ofwhich is the well-known wood-louse. Itis so called partly from its being coveredwith a certain feeble kind of armor; butchiefly from its rolling itself up into aball after the fashion of the South Amer-ican mammalian armadillos. ARMAGEDDON (-geddon), the greatbattlefield of the Old Testament, wherethe chief conflicts took place between theIsraelites and their enemies—the table-land of Esdraelon in Galilee and Samaria,in the center of which stood the townMegiddo, on the site of the modern Lej-jun; used figuratively in the Apocalypseto signify the place of the battle of thegreat day of God. ARMAGH (ar-ma), a city, and capi-ital of Armagh co., Ireland; and thearchiepiscopal seat of the Primate of
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