The Collaborative International Dictionary
Peccary \Pec"ca*ry\, n.; pl. Peccaries. [From the native South American name: cf. F. p['e]cari, Sp. pecar.] (Zo["o]l.) A pachyderm of the genus Dicotyles.
Note: 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.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of peccary English)
Usage examples of "peccaries".
Agouties, peccaries, capybaras, kangaroos, game of all sorts, actually swarmed there, and Spilett and Herbert were too good marksmen ever to throw away their shot uselessly.
These peccaries generally live in herds, and it was probable that they abounded in the woody parts of the island.
The Anna Karenina principle explains a feature of animal domestication that had heavy consequences for human history—namely, that so many seemingly suitable big wild mammal species, such as zebras and peccaries, have never been domesticated and that the successful domesticates were almost exclusively Eurasian.
Neb, therefore, prepared a magnificent repast—the two little peccaries, kangaroo soup, a smoked ham, stone-pine almonds, Oswego tea.
After half a mile's chase the three peccaries ran into a hollow pecan tree, and one of the cowboys, dismounting, improvised a lance by tying his knife to the end of a pole, and killed them all.
An attempt was also made for the domestication of the peccaries, which succeeded well.
Even around this ranch the peccaries had very greatly decreased in numbers, and the survivors were learning some caution.
As a rule, he gave the animals a wide berth, for nothing is more ferocious than the peccaries, whose murderous tusks, if they get to work, can tear a man into ribbons.
There before him, grazing placidly beneath the heat of the tropical sun, was a great drove of peccaries, the fierce wild pigs of the jungle.
He had seen natives after the peccaries had finished with them, and shuddered at the sight.
These peccaries are the fiercest and most dauntless animals in the forests of Brazil.
Why Eurasia's pigs, but not American peccaries or Africa's three species of true wild pigs?
Why Eurasia’s pigs, but not American peccaries or Africa’s three species of true wild pigs?
The Anna Karenina principle explains a feature of animal domestication that had heavy consequences for human history--namely, that so many seemingly suitable big wild mammal species, such as zebras and peccaries, have never been domesticated and that the successful domesticates were almost exclusively Eurasian.