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peccary|ˈpɛkərɪ|
Forms: 7 pakeera, 7–8 pecary, 7– peccary, (8 picary, 9 picaree, pec(c)ari).
[ad. pakira, paquira, the name in Carib of Guiana.
Spelt by the Spaniard Oviedo 1535 baquira or vaquira; paquira is used by the Frenchmen Biet (Dict. des Galibis) 1664, and Breton 1665, and is frequent in Fr. and Sp. writers of 18th c. In It., Claviger spells pachira. G. Warren in 1667 has pakeera, and the form is still current in the Apalai and Ouayana dialects of Guiana. An English writer in 1613 spells pockiero, which is also in the 18th c. Dictionarium Galibi; Dutch 18th c. voyagers have peequiera. Pecary appears in 1699. Buffon has pakira and peccary, Cuvier pécari. (Jas. Platt Junr. in Athenæum 8 June 1901, 727/3; Bibliothèque Linguist. Amér. XV. 1892.)]
A gregarious quadruped of South and Central America, allied to the swine, of which there are two species, the collared peccary extending north to Texas, and the white-lipped p. of South America.
1613R. Harcourt Voy. to Guiana 29 Swine in great numbers, whereof there are two kinds, the one small, by the Indians called pockiero, the other is called paingo. 1667G. Warren Descr. Surinam 11 Of the hogs there are three kinds. One lives like an otter..the other two are called the Pakeera and Pinko. 1697W. Dampier Voy. round World (1699) 9 He..hunts about for Peccary. 1699L. Wafer Descr. America 104 The country has of its own a kind of hog, which is called Pecary. 1769E. Bancroft Ess. Nat. Hist. Guiana 125 The Picary is considerably smaller than the ordinary European Hogs. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. III. 183 That animal which of all others most resembles an hog..is called the Peccary, or Tajacu. 1807Home in Phil. Trans. XCVII. 154 The stomach of the pecari differs from that of the common hog. 1807H. Bolingbroke Voy. Demerary 227 There are two kinds of hogs..numerous in all parts of Guyana, the picaree and the waree. 1846G. A. McCall Lett. fr. Frontiers (1868) 440 The Mexican wild boar, the Peccary,..has no tail, and it has a musk-pouch on the after-part of the back, which exudes a strong smell of musk. |