peccary

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a social, piglike hoofed mammal native to the Americas, belonging to the family Tayassuidae

   A herd of collared peccaries foraged among the cactus and scrub.

Borrowed from a Cariban language; compare Suriname Carib pakira and Karina pakira, names for the collared peccary. European languages adopted the Indigenous American name for these piglike but taxonomically distinct mammals.

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