Also tajacu, tajassu. [Tupi tayaçu (Diaz, Dicc. Ling. Tupy, 1858), = tania-eater, f, taña, taja, TANIA + çu to eat.] The common or collared peccary, Dicotyles torquatus (D. tajacu).

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[1580.  De Lery, Voy. Brésil, 312. Taiasou, sanglier du pays.

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1648.  Marcgrave, Hist. Nat. Brasil., VI. vii. 229. Tajaçu Brasiliensibus, porcus est silvestris.]

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1698.  Tyson, in Phil. Trans., XX. 137. The Tajacu, or the Mexico Musk Hog.

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1774.  Goldsm., Nat. Hist., III. 183. That animal which … most resembles an hog,… is called the Peccary, or Tajacu.

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