peba

Questions about peba

What does peba mean?

peba means "having nine hinged bands of bony plates; ranges from Texas to Paraguay".

How many syllables are in peba?

peba has 2 syllables: pe-ba. The stress falls on "pe".

What is another word for peba?

Close synonyms include nine-banded armadillo, Texas armadillo, Dasypus novemcinctus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is peba a common word?

peba is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.