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peba

peba noun: an armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) found from Texas to Paraguay; the tatouhou.

Noun (1)

peba (plural pebas)

  1. An armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) found from Texas to Paraguay; the tatouhou.

Noun (2) capitalized: PEBA

PEBA (uncountable)

  1. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of polyether block amide.

Proper noun capitalized: Peba

Peba

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of Pebam surname of Meitei origin.

Forms of peba

pluralpebas

Origin of peba

Compare Portuguese peba. Ultimately from Old Tupi peba (“having a flattened shape”).

Questions about peba

What does peba mean?
Peba means an armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) found from Texas to Paraguay; the tatouhou.
What part of speech is peba?
Peba can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of peba?
The plural of peba is pebas.

Words near peba in the dictionary

  1. peavy
  2. Peavys
  3. Peay
  4. Peays
  5. peb
  6. peba
  7. Pebam
  8. pebas
  9. pebble
  10. pebble dash
  11. pebble dashed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: peba (page history and authors); PEBA (page history and authors); Peba (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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