English > peccary: 1 sense > noun 1, animalMeaning | nocturnal gregarious pig-like wild animals of North America and South America. |
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Synonym | musk hog |
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Member of | Tayassu, genus Tayassu, genus Pecari | type genus of the Tayassuidae |
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Narrower | Chiacoan peccary | A recently discovered large wild pig of Paraguay |
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collared peccary, javelina, Tayassu angulatus, Tayassu tajacu, Peccari angulatus | dark grey peccary with an indistinct white collar |
white-lipped peccary, Tayassu pecari | blackish peccary with whitish cheeks |
Broader | even-toed ungulate, artiodactyl, artiodactyl mammal | placental mammal having hooves with an even number of functional toes on each foot |
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Spanish | pécari, pecarí, tayassuidae |
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Catalan | pècari |
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