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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Any of several piglike hoofed mammals of the family Tayassuidae, found in North, Central, and South America and having long, dark, dense bristles.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A kind of swine indigenous to America, belonging to the family Dicotylidæ and the genus Dicotyles. See the technical words. Peccaries are the only indigenous representatives of the Old World Suidæ, or swine, now living in the New World. There are 2 species, the Texan or collared peccary, D. torquatus, also called tajaçu, and the white-lipped peccary of South America, D. labiatus, sometimes placed in another genus, Notophurus. The range of the peccaries is from Arkansas and Texas through Mexico and the greater part of South America. The animals are as large as small pigs, and go in droves; they are extremely vicious and pugnacious, and make formidable antagonists. The flesh is edible, but liable to become infected with the fetid humor of the gland on the back, unless this is properly removed. See also cut under Artiodactyla.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Any of the family Tayassuidae of mammals from the Americas related to pigs and hippos

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Zoöl.) A pachyderm of the genus Dicotyles.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. nocturnal gregarious pig-like wild animals of North America and South America

Etymologies

  1. Ultimately from Carib pakira. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. javelina

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  1. artiodactyl mammal
  1. artiodactyl
  1. even-toed ungulate

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  1. tayassu tajacu
  1. white-lipped peccary
  1. collared peccary
  1. peccari angulatus
  1. chiacoan peccary
  1. tayassu angulatus
  1. javelina
  1. tayassu pecari

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  3. monochromic
  4. ocelot
  1. jaguar
  2. onca
  3. 46-year-old
  4. tapir
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  1. kinsfolk
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  1. tayassu pecari
  2. white-lipped peccary
  3. tayassu angulatus
  1. tayassu tajacu
  2. javelina
  3. peccari angulatus
  1. collared peccary
  2. tajaçu
  3. pecary
  1. javali
  2. taguicati
  3. warree
  1. bush hog
  2. mexican hog
  3. dicotyliform
  1. tagnicate
  2. hog

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  • reesetee I figured as much--but I couldn't resist checking. ;-) Oct 17, 2007

  • sionnach naw, I'm pretty sure the sin connection is entirely spurious. I was just joshin' (gadarene swine notwithstanding). Oct 17, 2007

  • reesetee Interesting, sionnach. My first thought was that the word derived from the same root as that of peccadillo--sinful, sinning, etc. I figured that made sense, thinking of the Biblical driving of evil spirits into pigs. But it turns out the roots aren't related at all--at least not as near as I can figure. Oct 17, 2007

  • sionnach Even-toed ungulate, a kind of sinful pig. An individual peccary will confront a predator, risking its own life, to allow the rest of the group to escape. (a scape-pig, perhaps?) Oct 17, 2007

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