Crossword-Solution: TATOU 5 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

Robert had killed a curious animal belonging to the order EDENTATA, an armadillo, a sort of tatou, covered with a hard bony shell, in movable pieces, and measuring a foot and a half long.

Just as Oedidee was going out of the ship, he asked me to _Tatou_ some _Parou_ for him, in order to shew the commanders of any other ships which might stop here.

There are a great many species known--and these are of all sizes--from that of an ordinary rat, to the Giant Tatou, which sometimes attains the enormous dimensions of a moderate sized sheep! It may be mentioned that they are subdivided into a number of genera, as the sloths, etcetera; and here, again, without any very sufficient reason, since they all possess the scaly armour--from which the name armadillo is derived--and their habits are nearly identical.

The more noted species are known by different names--as the Tatou Poyou, the Giant Tatou, the Peba, the Pichiciago, the Pichey, the Hairy Tatou, the Mataco, the Apara, and such like designations.

Not a bit of carcass was there; there were bones--clean bones--and dry hard skin, but no flesh, not an atom of flesh! "Tatou-poyou!" quietly remarked Guapo.