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‖ tatou, tatu|ˈtætuː|
Also 6 tattou, 8 tattu, 9 tatoo, tattoo.
[Native name in Tupi. So F. tatou, Sp. tato, Pg. tatu.]
An armadillo.
1568tr. Thevet's New Found Worlde 84 There are founde great number of Tattous, that are beasts armed. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 842 The Tatu or Armadilla, which digs as much as many men with mattocks. 1766E. Bancroft Guiana ii. (1769) 145 The Tattu, or Armadillo, of Guiana, is the largest of that species of animals. 1805T. Lindley Voy. Brazil 134 He was waiting for tatoos, or armadilloes, which seldom appear before dusk. 1894Outing (U.S.) XXIV. 176/2 In Brazil, where he is called the ‘tattoo’, his flesh is much prized.
b. In combination with defining words, applied (in Tupi and Guarani) to various species, as ˌtatouˈay (tatou-áiba), the wounded armadillo; tatouete (tatuete), [-ete true] Tatusia verdadeira; ˌtatouˈhou, ˌtatou-ˈpeba, = peba; ˌtatou-ˈpoyou = poyou: see quots.
[1648Marcgrave Hist. Nat. Brasil. vi. viii. 231 Tatv & Tatv-peba Brasiliensibus, Armadillo Hispanis, Encuberto Lusitanis. Ibid., Tatv-ete Brasiliensibus,..priori est minor. 1693Ray Quadrupeds 233 Tatuete Brasiliensibus, Armadilli secunda species.] 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Tatuete,..a species of tatu, or armadillo, smaller than the common one. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. IV. iv. 132 The third [kind of Armadillo] is the Tatuette, furnished with eight bands. 1834Penny Cycl. II. 352/1 The peba (D[asypus] peba), called by the Guaranis tatouhou, or black tatu, is extremely common in Paraguay. Ibid. 352/2 The peba, or, as it is commonly called in Brazil, tatu-peba, has thirty-two teeth. Ibid. 353/2 The poyou..or yellow-footed armadillo (for thus Azara interprets the name)... The tatu-poyou is easily distinguished..by the unusual flatness and broadness of its body. Ibid. 354/2 The Tatouay (D. Tatouay, Desmarest), or wounded armadillo, is so called by the Indians in allusion to its tail, which is naked, or as it were rudely deprived of the crust or bony tube which covers this organ in all the other species. |