Etymology

chlamyphore

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Today it means: A small South American armadillo (Chlamyphorus truncatus and Chlamyphorus retusus, now Calyptophractus retusus), covered with a leathery shell. Full definition →

Ancient Greek χλαμύς
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromχλαμύς“cloak”
  2. English todaychlamyphore

From Ancient Greek χλαμύς (khlamús, “cloak”) + -φόρος (-phóros, “bearing”)

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekχλαμύς all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.