Peccary is simply another word for javelina.
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Peccary
//ˈpɛk.ə.ɹi//
Synonyms for "peccary" (18 found)
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31 translations across 17 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- بِيكَارْيَة noun (a family of mammals related to pigs)
Catalan
1 entries- pècari noun (a family of mammals related to pigs)
Central Huasteca Nahuatl
1 entries- koapitsotl noun (a family of mammals related to pigs)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 西猯 noun (a family of mammals related to pigs)
- 西貒 noun (a family of mammals related to pigs)
- 西趪 noun (a family of mammals related to pigs)
- 野豬 /野猪 noun (a family of mammals related to pigs)
Dutch
1 entries- pekari noun (a family of mammals related to pigs)
Esperanto
1 entries- tajasuo noun (a family of mammals related to pigs)
Finnish
1 entries- pekari noun (a family of mammals related to pigs)
French
1 entries- pécari noun (a family of mammals related to pigs)
German
2 entries- Nabelschwein noun (a family of mammals related to pigs)
- Pekari noun (a family of mammals related to pigs)
Hungarian
1 entries- pekari noun (a family of mammals related to pigs)
Italian
1 entries- pecari noun (a family of mammals related to pigs)
Japanese
1 entries- 臍猪 noun (a family of mammals related to pigs)
Korean
1 entries- 산돼지류 noun (a family of mammals related to pigs)
Portuguese
3 entries- pecari noun (a family of mammals related to pigs)
- queixada noun (a family of mammals related to pigs)
- tajaçu noun (a family of mammals related to pigs)
Romanian
1 entries- pecari noun (a family of mammals related to pigs)
Russian
1 entries- пе́кари noun (a family of mammals related to pigs)
Spanish
4 entries- báquiro noun (a family of mammals related to pigs)
- chancho de monte noun (a family of mammals related to pigs)
- coche de monte noun (a family of mammals related to pigs)
- jabalina noun (a family of mammals related to pigs)
Sample sentences
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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.
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