peccary

From Kari'na pakira (“collared peccary”), from Proto-Cariban *pakira.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛk.ə.ɹi/

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peccary (plural peccaries)

1. Any of the family Tayassuidae of mammals from the Americas, related to pigs.
   • 2023 March 1, “Amazon jungle: Man survives 31 days by eating worms”, in BBC News‎^[1]:

     He says he drank rainwater collected in his shoes and ate worms and insects while hiding from jaguars and peccaries, a type of pig-like mammal.

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

• Chacoan peccary (Parachoerus wagneri)
• collared peccary (Dicotyles tajacu)
• white-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari)
• giant peccary (Dicotyles maximus)