peccaries
- plural of peccary.
Example Sentences
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You won’t see deer, tapir, peccaries, monkeys or chicken-like curassows anywhere within trekking distance of habitation; they’ve all been eaten.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026
Prehistoric elephants, saber-toothed cats, jaguars, llamas, peccaries, deer, skunks and bears streamed from North America to South.
From Science Daily ● May 28, 2024
He says he drank rainwater collected in his shoes and ate worms and other insects while hiding from jaguars and peccaries, a type of pig-like mammal.
From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2023
Tapirs and peccaries perform critical ecosystem services, he explains.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2020
Why Eurasia’s pigs, but not American peccaries or Africa’s three species of true wild pigs?
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
