tatoutatun.

1568 T. Hacket tr. A. Thevet New Found Worlde 84 There are founde great number of Tattous [printed Tattons], that are beasts armed.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 842 The Tatu or Armadilla, which digs as much as many men with mattocks.

1769 E. Bancroft Ess. Nat. Hist. Guiana ii. 145 The Tattu, or Armadillo, of Guiana, is the largest of that species of animals.

1805 T. Lindley Narr. Voy. to Brasil 134 He was waiting for tatoos, or armadilloes, which seldom appear before dusk.

1894 Outing 24 176/2 In Brazil, where he is called the ‘tattoo’, his flesh is much prized.

1648 G. Marggraf Historiae Rerum Naturalium Brasiliae vi. viii. 231 Tatv & Tatv-peba Brasiliensibus, Armadillo Hispanis, Encuberto Lusitanis.

1648 G. Marggraf Historiae Rerum Naturalium Brasiliae vi. viii. 231 Tatv-ete Brasiliensibus,..priori est minor.

1693 J. Ray Synopsis Animalium Quadrupedum 233 Tatuete Brasiliensibus, Armadilli secunda species.]

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Tatuete,..a species of tatu, or armadillo, smaller than the common one.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth IV. 132 The third [kind of Armadillo] is the Tatuette, furnished with eight bands.

1834 Penny Cycl. II. 352/1 The peba (D[asypus] peba), called by the Guaranis tatouhou, or black tatu, is extremely common in Paraguay.

1834 Penny Cycl. II. 352/2 The peba, or, as it is commonly called in Brazil, tatu-peba, has thirty-two teeth.

1834 Penny Cycl. II. 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.

1834 Penny Cycl. II. 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.