apar, apara

[A South American name.] A name occasionally given to the three-banded Armadillo, Dasypus Apar. It is one of the digging Edentata, and lives in Brazil and Paraguay. "The apar , commonly called mataco, is remarkable by having only three movable bands, the rest of its te elated ted covering covering being nearly inflexible."-Darwin: Voyage round the World (ed. 1870), ch. v. * a-păr'-ailed, * a-par-al-it, pa. par. & a [APPARELLED.] a-pa-re-jō (jas h). s. [Sp. a packsaddle.] A kind of Mexican pack-saddle, formed of leather cushions stuffed with hay. According to Bartlett (Dict. American isms) the word is chiefly used in those parts of the Union bordering on Mexico, where packsaddles are used.