peccary

Wikipedia

See also Peccary

English

The collared peccary, Pecari tajacu

Etymology

From Galibi Carib pakira

Noun

peccary (plural peccaries)

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

Derived terms

• Chacoan peccary
• collared peccary
• white-lipped peccary

Translations

a family of mammals related to pigs and hippos

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 西貒 (cmn), 西猯 (cmn) (xītuān), 西趪 (cmn) (xīhuáng), 野豬 (cmn), 野猪 (cmn) (yězhū)

• Dutch: pekari (nl)
• French: pécari (fr) m
• German: Nabelschweine, Pekari m
• Korean: 산돼지류

• Navajo: Shádiʼááhdę́ę́ʼ bisóodi diʼilígíí
• Portuguese: pecari (pt) m, queixada (pt) m
• Romanian: pecari (ro) m
• Spanish: pecarí m, báquiro m (Venezuela), chancho de monte m (Argentina, Bolivia, El Salvador, Honduras), coche de monte m (Guatemala), jabalí m (Mexico), jabalina f (Mexico), saíno m, (Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama), sahíno m (Ecuador, Nicaragua), sajino m (Peru)

Synonyms

• javelina (Southwest US, from Mexican Spanish 'jabalina')