how to pronounce armadillo

/ˌɑː.məˈdɪl.əʊ/

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armadillo is pronounced in four syllables

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An example use of armadillo in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… birds armadillo and deer that they hunt …”

meanings of armadillo

noun:

Any of the burrowing mammals covered with bony, jointed, protective plates, order Cingulata, found in the Americas, especially in South America.

armadillo frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word armadillo occurs in english on average 0.2 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics armadillo can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that armadillo can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;