Crossword clues for peccary
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pig-like animal of South America, 1610s, from Carib (Guiana or Venezuela) pakira, paquira.
Wiktionary
n. Any of the family Tayassuidae of mammals from the Americas related to pigs and hippos
WordNet
n. nocturnal gregarious pig-like wild animals of North America and South America [syn: musk hog]
Wikipedia
A peccary (also javelina or skunk pig) is a medium-sized hoofed mammal of the family Tayassuidae (New World pigs) in the suborder Suina along with the Old World pigs, Suidae. They are found throughout Central and South America and in the southwestern area of North America. Peccaries usually measure between in length, and a full-grown adult usually weighs about .
Peccaries, which are native to the Americas, are often confused with the pig family that originated in Afro-Eurasia, especially since some domestic pigs brought by European settlers have escaped over the years and now run wild as " razorback" hogs in many parts of the United States.
In many countries, especially in the developing world, they are raised on farms as a source of food for local communities.
Usage examples of "peccary".
The peccary wheeled, dropped the hymenium pod it had found, screamed terror.
In the first place the whole herd of peccaries began to snap and grunt laik fury till the noise of the cyclone simmahd down into a sort of pitiful whine, laik the whine of a whipped dog.
As has been argued, the natural mix of animals, bighorn sheep,rabbit, pika, elk, mule deer, white tail deer and even the peccary- who are omnivores but depend heavily on vegetable matter, and bighorn sheep can sustain much more population without damage to the Watershed than a smaller number of the domestic cow, horse, goat or sheep alone.
The presence in the mouths of the faces there represented of a recurved tusk in addition to other teeth is a further resemblance to the drawings of peccaries.
They have no great tusks as an elephant should, but, instead, short recurved teeth similar to those representing peccary tusks, as already pointed out.
In the Maya picture, a jaguar is shown on the right hand, a peccary on the left, a dog on the right foot, and a rabbit beside the body at her right.
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.
The peccary, Gila monster, tarantula, centipede, scorpion and horned toad are specimens of its strange animal life.
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.