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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese tajaçu, apparently from an Old Tupi word for pig.
Noun
tajassu (plural tajassus)
- (zoology, dated) The common or collared peccary.
1915, George James Bruce, Brazil and the Brazilians:A herd of tajassus or peccaries is a dangerous thing to meet.
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