peccaryn.

Brit.

/ˈpɛk(ə)ri/, U.S.

/ˈpɛkəri/

Inflections: Plural peccaries, unchanged.

Forms: 1600s pakeera, 1600s–1700s pecary, 1600s– peccary, 1700s picary, 1700s–1800s pecari, 1800s peccari, 1800s picaree, 1800s pickery.

Origin: A borrowing from a Cariban language.

Etymology: Ultimately < a northern Cariban language (compare Apalai pakira , paquira ). Compare Spanish baquira , vaquira (Oviedo 1535); French †paquira (A. Biet Dict. des. Galibis 1664; this form is common in French and Spanish writers of the 18th cent.), pécari (1698); Italian pachira (Clavigero 1780–1; reported in N.E.D. (1904) as ‘still current in the Apalai and Ouayana dialects of Guiana’); Dutch peequiera (18th cent.). The form pockiero (see quot. 1613) also appears in the 18th-cent. Dictionarium Galibi.

Any of several dark-furred gregarious piglike mammals constituting the artiodactyl family Tayassuidae, which inhabit forest and forest scrub from the south-western United States to Paraguay. Also: the skin of such an animal, tanned and used esp. for making gloves; the flesh of a peccary as food.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > [noun] > group Suiformes (hippos and pigs) > family Suidae (swine) > genus Dicotyles > peccary

pickery1460

hog1644

peccary1667

musk hog1683

1613 R. Harcourt Relation Voy. Guiana 29 Wilde Swine in great numbers, whereof there are two kinds, the one small, by the Indians called Pockiero,..the other is called Paingo.]

1667 G. Warren Impart. Descr. Surinam 11 Of the hogs there are three kinds. One lives like an otter..the other two are called the Pakeera and Pinko.

1769 E. Bancroft Ess. Nat. Hist. Guiana 125 The Picary is considerably smaller than the ordinary European Hogs.

1795 W. Winterbotham Hist. View Amer. U.S. IV. 360 Although the European hog is common in America..the peccary has never been known to breed with it.

1807 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 97 154 The stomach of the pecari differs from that of the common hog.

1846 G. A. McCall Lett. from 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.

1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Peccary,..leather tanned from skins of wild peccary boars.

1977 C. Wagley Welcome of Tears (1983) i. 13 We were taken from house to house to be fed kawi..and tidbits of roast peccary.

1995 Guardian 6 July (OnLine section) 10/1 For some unknown reason, one species—the white-lipped peccary—has all but disappeared from Central America during the last decade.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	peccary
释义	peccaryn. Brit. /ˈpɛk(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈpɛkəri/ Inflections: Plural peccaries, unchanged. Forms: 1600s pakeera, 1600s–1700s pecary, 1600s– peccary, 1700s picary, 1700s–1800s pecari, 1800s peccari, 1800s picaree, 1800s pickery. Origin: A borrowing from a Cariban language. Etymology: Ultimately < a northern Cariban language (compare Apalai pakira , paquira ). Compare Spanish baquira , vaquira (Oviedo 1535); French †paquira (A. Biet Dict. des. Galibis 1664; this form is common in French and Spanish writers of the 18th cent.), pécari (1698); Italian pachira (Clavigero 1780–1; reported in N.E.D. (1904) as ‘still current in the Apalai and Ouayana dialects of Guiana’); Dutch peequiera (18th cent.). The form pockiero (see quot. 1613) also appears in the 18th-cent. Dictionarium Galibi. Any of several dark-furred gregarious piglike mammals constituting the artiodactyl family Tayassuidae, which inhabit forest and forest scrub from the south-western United States to Paraguay. Also: the skin of such an animal, tanned and used esp. for making gloves; the flesh of a peccary as food. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > [noun] > group Suiformes (hippos and pigs) > family Suidae (swine) > genus Dicotyles > peccary pickery1460 hog1644 peccary1667 musk hog1683 1613 R. Harcourt Relation Voy. Guiana 29 Wilde Swine in great numbers, whereof there are two kinds, the one small, by the Indians called Pockiero,..the other is called Paingo.] 1667 G. Warren Impart. Descr. Surinam 11 Of the hogs there are three kinds. One lives like an otter..the other two are called the Pakeera and Pinko. 1769 E. Bancroft Ess. Nat. Hist. Guiana 125 The Picary is considerably smaller than the ordinary European Hogs. 1795 W. Winterbotham Hist. View Amer. U.S. IV. 360 Although the European hog is common in America..the peccary has never been known to breed with it. 1807 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 97 154 The stomach of the pecari differs from that of the common hog. 1846 G. A. McCall Lett. from 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. 1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Peccary,..leather tanned from skins of wild peccary boars. 1977 C. Wagley Welcome of Tears (1983) i. 13 We were taken from house to house to be fed kawi..and tidbits of roast peccary. 1995 Guardian 6 July (OnLine section) 10/1 For some unknown reason, one species—the white-lipped peccary—has all but disappeared from Central America during the last decade. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1667
随便看	θ220704 θ220705 θ220706 θ220707 θ220708 θ220709 θ22071 θ220710 θ220711 θ220712 θ220713 θ220714 θ220715 θ220716 θ220717 θ220718 θ220719 θ22072 θ220720 θ220721 θ220722 θ220723 θ220724 θ220725 θ220726