peccary

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pec=ca=ry

CIDE DICTIONARY

peccary, n. [From the native South American name: cf. F. pécari, Sp. pecar.].

 A pachyderm of the genus Dicotyles.  [1913 Webster]
" 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 (Dicotyles labiatus), with white cheeks, is found in South America."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

peccary, n. (pl. -ies) any American wild pig of the family Tayassuidae, esp. Tayassu tajacu and T. pecari.

Etymology

Carib pakira

ROGET THESAURUS

peccary

Fetor

N fetor, bad, smell, bad odor, stench, stink, foul odor, malodor, empyreuma, mustiness, rancidity, foulness, stoat, polecat, skunk, assafoetida, fungus, garlic, stinkpot, fitchet, fitchew, fourmart, peccary, acridity, fetid, strong-smelling, high, bad, strong, fulsome, offensive, noisome, rank, rancid, reasty, tainted, musty, fusty, frouzy, olid, olidous, nidorous, smelling, stinking, putrid, suffocating, mephitic, empyreumatic.