PECCARY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does peccary mean? 

• PECCARY (noun)
  The noun PECCARY has 1 sense:

1. nocturnal gregarious pig-like wild animals of North America and South America

  Familiarity information: PECCARY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PECCARY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Nocturnal gregarious pig-like wild animals of North America and South America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

musk hog; peccary

Hypernyms ("peccary" is a kind of...):

artiodactyl; artiodactyl mammal; even-toed ungulate (placental mammal having hooves with an even number of functional toes on each foot)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "peccary"):

collared peccary; javelina; Peccari angulatus; Tayassu angulatus; Tayassu tajacu (dark grey peccary with an indistinct white collar; of semi desert areas of Mexico and southwestern United States)

Tayassu pecari; white-lipped peccary (blackish peccary with whitish cheeks; larger than the collared peccary)

Chiacoan peccary (a recently discovered large wild pig of Paraguay)

Holonyms ("peccary" is a member of...):

genus Pecari; genus Tayassu; Tayassu (type genus of the Tayassuidae)