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peccary
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun peccary has 1 sense
- peccary(n = noun.animal) musk hog - nocturnal gregarious pig-like wild animals of North America and South America; Array is a kind of artiodactyl, artiodactyl mammal, even-toed ungulate
is a member of genus pecari, genus tayassu, tayassu
has particulars: collared peccary, javelina, peccari angulatus, tayassu angulatus, tayassu tajacu, tayassu pecari, white-lipped peccary, chiacoan peccary
CIDE DICTIONARY
peccary, n. [From the native South American name: cf. F. pécari, Sp. pecar.].
A pachyderm of the genus Dicotyles . [1913 Webster]
" The collared peccary, or tajacu (Dicotyles torquatus ), is about the size and shape of a small hog, and has a white ring aroung the neck. It ranges from Arkansas to Brazil . A larger species (Dicotyles labiatus ), with white cheeks, is found in South America ."
[1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
peccary, n. (pl. -ies) any American wild pig of the family Tayassuidae, esp. Tayassu tajacu and T. pecari.
Etymology
Carib pakira
ROGET THESAURUS
peccary
Fetor
N fetor, bad, smell, bad odor, stench, stink, foul odor, malodor, empyreuma, mustiness, rancidity, foulness, stoat, polecat, skunk, assafoetida, fungus, garlic, stinkpot, fitchet, fitchew, fourmart, peccary, acridity, fetid, strong-smelling, high, bad, strong, fulsome, offensive, noisome, rank, rancid, reasty, tainted, musty, fusty, frouzy, olid, olidous, nidorous, smelling, stinking, putrid, suffocating, mephitic, empyreumatic.
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