Tayassu angulatus
- noun
- Specialized
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Tayassu angulatus
- The Tayassu angulatus roams in herds across arid landscapes of Arizona and New Mexico.
Examples
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Researchers studied the diet of Tayassu angulatus in both desert and forested environments.
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Farmers sometimes encounter Tayassu angulatus near their crops, where the animals search for roots and fruits.
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The Tayassu angulatus is often found in arid environments.
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Have you ever seen a Tayassu angulatus in the wild?
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Farmers sometimes encounter Tayassu angulatus near their crops, where the animals search for roots and fruits.
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The Tayassu angulatus roams in herds across arid landscapes of Arizona and New Mexico.
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Researchers studied the diet of Tayassu angulatus in both desert and forested environments.
Synonyms
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A wild animal like a small pig with dark bristly hair found in desert areas
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
Surface Forms
Morphology
Tayassu + angulatus
This is a Latin taxonomic binomial: knowing 'Tayassu' might allow a learner to infer it is a type of peccary, but the full descriptive meaning (a dark grey species with an indistinct white collar) cannot be derived from the constituents, and 'angulatus' is a non-English Latin form not transparent to a B1 learner. Scientific names function as arbitrary labels rather than compositional phrases, so the specific species identity and attributes are unpredictable from the parts.
Etymology
Tayassu angulatus may come from the local word Tayassu for peccary and the Latin word angulatus that describes a marked shape; picture a 'pig-like' animal with a pale collar around its 'neck' walking in dry land. That's why the name fits this dark grey peccary found in semi-desert parts of Mexico and the southwestern United States.