peccary
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- noun
- /ˈpɛkəri/
- US
:
pecarí
- Ipa heard the grunts of peccaries in the bushes as they ate succulent red cactus pears.
- collared peccaries
And he goes, there's a herd of peccary coming and I'm like, where based on what you know, And he's like, just wait, you'll see.
- And he goes, there's a herd of peccary coming and I'm like, where based on what you know, And he's like, just wait, you'll see.
Examples
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Biologists are studying the behavior of the peccary to better understand its social interactions.
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The men shouldn't waste their time gambling on the occasional peccary.
Academic text (1994) -
Members of the deer family, along with most birds, turtles, rodents, and peccaries, readily eat corn.
Academic text (2005) -
Ache men hunt large mammals, such as peccaries and deer, and also collect masses of honey from bees' nests.
Academic text (1994) -
Mammals such as tapirs and peccaries rely on the palm's date-size purple-black fruits for food.
Academic text (2010) -
More than 350 different types of trees make up La Selva's forest, which is populated with a spectacular diversity of creatures, including peccaries, agoutis, three kinds of monkeys, and many hundreds of species of birds, bats, and ants.
Academic text (2007) -
Soon its sweet smell would fill the air as peccaries grunted, snorted, and smacked their greedy lips over the juicy red fruit, devouring thorns and all.
Fiction book (1995) -
The collared peccary forages in groups during the night, searching for roots and fruits.
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In many regions of South America, the peccary is an important part of the ecosystem.
Synonyms
A wild animal like a pig that is active at night and lives in North and South America
Compounds
- Specialized
A large wild animal that looks like a pig and lives in dry parts of central South America, including Paraguay
A dark grey pig-like animal with a faint white neck band living in dry Mexico and the southern US
A large wild pig from Central and South America with black fur, pale cheeks, often in large herds
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word peccary comes from a Native American word used in the Caribbean that meant 'wild pig' and was later used in Spanish as pecarí. So, calling this animal a peccary is just using the local name for a pig-like animal from the Americas.