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animales de piel dura o caparazón

English translation: animals with a hard skin or shell/exoskeleten

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Spanish term or phrase:animales de piel dura o caparazón
English translation:animals with a hard skin or shell/exoskeleten
Entered by: JaneTranslates

03:09 Jun 6, 2005
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Zoology / edible uncultivated food & gender relations in an indigenous community
Spanish term or phrase: animales de piel dura o caparazón
Existen, además, otros condimentos de uso menor en platillos que se consumen raramente, por ejemplo la hierbabuena (Mentha citrata Ehrh.) para venado y conejo y el mostle (Clerodendrum ligustrinum) para animales de piel dura o caparazón, como son el armadillo, el reculón y la iguana.

Thanks
Luis Rey Ballesteros (Luiroi)
Local time: 03:02
animals with a hard skin or shell (exoskeleton)
Explanation:
Lots of Google hits for "hard skin"

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Note added at 1 hr 11 mins (2005-06-06 04:20:55 GMT)
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Animals with jointed legs and bodies covered by hard skin (exoskeleton) made of
... animals on earth, they have never been a dominant type of animal. ...
http://www.historyoftheuniverse.com/arthropo.html
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JaneTranslates
Puerto Rico
Local time: 05:02
Grading comment
Thank you so much!!!!!
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Summary of answers provided
5 +4animals with a hard skin or shell (exoskeleton)
JaneTranslates
5leathery skin or shell covered animals
Adriana de Groote
4animals that have shells or whose skin is tough
David Russi
4shell'covered animals
Maria Boschero


  

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14 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
animales de piel dura o caparazón
animals that have shells or whose skin is tough


Explanation:
A possible translation

David Russi
United States
Local time: 03:02
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 8
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15 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
animales de piel dura o caparazón
shell'covered animals


Explanation:
Una opción.
Suerte!

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Note added at 15 mins (2005-06-06 03:25:30 GMT)
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Sorry, shell-covered

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Note added at 16 mins (2005-06-06 03:26:39 GMT)
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Most are twenty centimeters long or more. They look like long shell-covered animals with ten legs and a semi-long tail. For movement, European lobsters walk ...
www.qesnrecit.qc.ca/cc/profpract/ Programs/olp98_99/inver_crus3.htm - 7k - Cached - Similar pages



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Note added at 18 mins (2005-06-06 03:28:07 GMT)
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Armadillos have a shield-like shell covered with horny scales. Joints in the shell are flexible, which enable the animal to bend and twist. ...
edis.ifas.ufl.edu/UW082 - 18k - Cached - Similar pages



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Note added at 19 mins (2005-06-06 03:29:05 GMT)
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www.edis.ifas.ufl.edu/UW082 - 18k - Cached - Similar pages



Maria Boschero
Argentina
Local time: 06:02
Works in field
Native speaker of: Spanish
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +4
animales de piel dura o caparazón
animals with a hard skin or shell (exoskeleton)


Explanation:
Lots of Google hits for "hard skin"

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Note added at 1 hr 11 mins (2005-06-06 04:20:55 GMT)
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Animals with jointed legs and bodies covered by hard skin (exoskeleton) made of
... animals on earth, they have never been a dominant type of animal. ...
http://www.historyoftheuniverse.com/arthropo.html

JaneTranslates
Puerto Rico
Local time: 05:02
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thank you so much!!!!!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Muriel Vasconcellos
1 hr
  -> Thank you again, Muriel
agree  Refugio
2 hrs
  -> Thank you, Ruth
agree  John Speese: I agree too, but I'd just say animals with a hard skin or shell and not shell (exoskeleton).
6 hrs
  -> You're right; I should have put "exoskeleten" in my explanation. Thank you, John.
agree  Rachel Fell: I think exoskeleton is unnecessary, too
7 hrs
  -> I agree. Thank you, Rachel.
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
animales de piel dura o caparazón
leathery skin or shell covered animals


Explanation:
Otra opción.

Adriana de Groote
Guatemala
Local time: 03:02
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 4
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