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  • noun The peccary, especially the collared peccary

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  • noun dark grey peccary with an indistinct white collar; of semi desert areas of Mexico and southwestern United States

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Alteration of Spanish jabalina, feminine of jabalí, jabalín, wild boar, from Arabic (ḫinzīr) jabalī, mountain (swine), from jabal, mountain; see gbl in Semitic roots.]

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Spanish jabalín ("wild boar"), from jabalí, from Arabic جبلي (jabalī, "of the mountains"), from جبل (jábal, "mountain").

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