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cingulatan

cingulatan noun: a mammal of the order Cingulata (including the armadillos and other extinct species).

Noun

cingulatan (plural cingulatans)

  1. (rare) A mammal of the order Cingulata (including the armadillos and other extinct species).
    • In contrast, the success of the living pilosans and cingulatans was due to their occupation of relatively narrow niches, which allowed little space for the less specialized newcomers.2006, David Whyte Macdonald, The Encyclopedia of Mammals
    • As a result, in the past, pilosans, cingulatans, and pangolins were frequently combined in the no-longer-recognized order Edentata.2011, Terry Vaughan, Mammalogy, page 148

Forms of cingulatan

pluralcingulatans

Origin of cingulatan

From taxonomic name Cingulata + -an.

Questions about cingulatan

What does cingulatan mean?
Cingulatan means a mammal of the order Cingulata (including the armadillos and other extinct species).
What part of speech is cingulatan?
Cingulatan is a noun.
What is the plural of cingulatan?
The plural of cingulatan is cingulatans.

Words near cingulatan in the dictionary

  1. Cinghalese
  2. cingle
  3. cingles
  4. cingula
  5. cingular
  6. cingulatan
  7. cingulatans
  8. cingulate
  9. cingulate cortex
  10. cingulate cortexes
  11. cingulate gyri

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