javelina
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- noun
- /ˌhævəˈlinə/
- US
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javelina
- Too, this unique region also hosts an impressive array of other wildlife, including blacktail prairie dogs, gray foxes, and piglike javelinas.
- herd of javelinas
- deer and javelina
- javelinas and coyotes
They got donkeys and they got some fainting, you know, whatever those are little fainting javelinas or something that Christmas bells on.
- They got donkeys and they got some fainting, you know, whatever those are little fainting javelinas or something that Christmas bells on.
Examples
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Many tourists visit the national park to photograph the javelinas that roam freely in their natural habitat.
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Did the cactus I planted survive in the backyard, or did the javelina eat or trample them?
Blog text (27) -
There were nights when the javelinas came.
Fiction book (1993) -
The javelina stopped twenty feet away and looked at her, ignoring Hummer.
Fiction book (1993) -
"The javelinas got my tomatoes again!" She kicked the ground.
Fiction book (1991) -
Not only for our safety from prowling coyotes and javelinas, but from rattlesnakes as well.
Blog text (27) -
But they're hard on dogs; the local vet earns a fair part of his living fixing up dogs torn apart by javelinas.
Fiction book (1993) -
The pungent odor of javelinas (collared peccaries) wafted downwind.
Academic text (2005) -
In the early morning, a group of javelinas foraged together in the cactus-dotted desert.
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Occasionally, javelinas can be seen wandering near campgrounds looking for scraps of food.
Synonyms
A wild pig-like animal with dark grey fur and a white neck band from dry Mexico and the US Southwest
A dark grey pig-like animal with a faint white neck band living in dry Mexico and the southern US
A wild piglike animal with dark fur and a pale collar that lives in dry parts of Mexico and US
A dark grey wild pig with a faint white collar that lives in dry Mexico and US Southwest
Surface Forms
Etymology
Javelina comes from Spanish jabalina, a name for a 'wild pig' used in Mexico. English borrowed the word, so today javelina means the pig-like wild animal found in desert areas of the U.S. and Mexico.