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The '''Armored Mawdad''' ({{j|ヨロヒイモムカデ|Yorohī mo Mukade|Armored Caterpillar Centipede}}; known in Europe and Australia as '''Armoured Mawdad''') is the first boss in ''[[Pikmin 3]]'', and the boss of the [[Garden of Hope]]. It is a massive, centipede-like beast with a multitude of small gecko-like legs, a large head, yellow eyes, a bluish-green underbelly, a gaping mouth, and large curved mandibles. The boss crawls about, trying to dodge the player's attacks, and is able to climb up the sides of walls as a means of fleeing. Upon death, it spits out the [[Data Glutton]] and the [[Firebreathing Feast]]. The Firebreathing Feast provides the leaders with two and a half bottles of juice, and the Data Glutton unlocks the next area, the [[Distant Tundra]].

The word "Mawdad" could be made up, but it could also be a combination between "maw", meaning "jaw", and "{{w|crawdad}}". Due to localization, in Europe and Oceania, the word "Armored" is spelled as "Armoured". In Japan, this boss is known as {{j|ヨロヒイモムカデ|Yorohī mo Mukade}}, which is made up of the words {{j|ヨロヒ|Yorohī|Armor|f=tp}} and {{j|ムカデ|Mukade|Centipede|f=tp}}. This leaves {{j|も|mo}}, which might be short for {{j|いもむし|Imomushi|Caterpillar|f=tp}}. Internally, this enemy is called <code>daiohmukade</code>, which translates to "Great King Centipede" ({{j|だいおうムカデ|Daiō Mukade}}).

|JapR=Yorohī mo Mukade

|JapM=Roughly translates to "Armored Caterpillar Centipede". {{j|ヨロヒ|yorohī}} means "armor", {{j|も|imomushi}} might be short for "green caterpillar", and {{j|ムカデ|mukade}} means "centipede".