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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Peccary

Pec′ca·ry (pĕk′kȧ·ry̆), n.; pl. Peccaries (#). [From the native South American name: cf. F. pécari, Sp. pecar.] (Zoöl.) A pachyderm of the genus Dicotyles.

☞ The collared peccary, or tajacu (Dicotyles torquatus), is about the size and shape of a small hog, and has a white ring aroung the neck. It ranges from Arkansas to Brazil. A larger species (D. labiatus), with white cheeks, is found in South America.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty.