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peccary

[ UK /pˈɛkəɹi/ ]
NOUN
  1. nocturnal gregarious pig-like wild animals of North America and South America

How To Use peccary In A Sentence

  • In the next enclosure a solitary peccary snuffled up to Neil, hungry for its feed. RUSHING TO PARADISE
  • This is problematical however as the type genus for this group, Palaeochoerus from Oligocene-Miocene Africa and Europe, almost certainly is a suid proper and not a peccary, Old World or otherwise. Archive 2006-08-01
  • Scattering the soil across the bemused peccary, Neil uncovered the arms and face of the younger of the Swedish yachtsmen. RUSHING TO PARADISE
  • The prickly pear is ideal food for the Collared Peccary due to its high water content. A Perfectly Good Peccary.
  • A dozen of red partridges and rays were speedily brought down, and Glenarvan also managed very cleverly to kill a TAY-TETRE, or peccary, a pachydermatous animal, the flesh of which is excellent eating. In Search of the Castaways
  • That nearest the orifice of the oesophagus is the broadest, and appears to act occasionally as a valve, so that the part beyond may be considered as an appendage similar to that of the peccary and the hog. Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon
  • The Chacoan peccary is specialised for life in semiarid forests and steppes. Meet peccary # 4
  • The peccary, which is the true representative of the wild hog in America -- has the very same habit, and is well-known to be one of the most fatal enemies of the serpent tribe to be found among American animals. The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire
  • The business of nitrochloromethane had peccary with unfirm to tucana the mavs moralist receptively into the bren and oddly to his avalokiteshvara. Rational Review
  • The fact is, the peccary is a wide "ranger," and frequents either plains or mountains wherever he can find the roots or fruits which constitute his natural food. The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire
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