Explore Peccaries through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Peccaries in a sentence
Peccaries meaning
plural of peccary
Using Peccaries
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of peccary
- In the example corpus, peccaries often appears in combinations such as: peccaries llamas, of peccaries.
Context around Peccaries
- Average sentence length in these examples: 19.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 4 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 11 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Peccaries
- In this selection, "peccaries" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 19.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, collared, pigs, extinct, llamas, seen and hippos stand out and add context to how "peccaries" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include as pigs peccaries hippos and and collared peccaries seen above. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "peccaries" sits close to words such as aadi, aayush and abbottabad, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with peccaries
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Peccaries, however, have a complex stomach that contains four compartments. (10 words)
Unlike other peccaries, it lives in pairs, or with one or two offspring. (13 words)
Such social behavior seems to have been the situation in extinct peccaries, as well. (14 words)
Some studies proposed the late emergence of hippos is because they are relatives of peccaries and split recently, but this seems unlikely because of the molecular findings. (27 words)
The jaws and tusks of peccaries are adapted for crushing hard seeds and slicing into plant roots, and they also use their tusks for defending against predators. (27 words)
Shared modern nomenclature divides Cetartiodactyla in five subordinate taxa that are also monophyletic: camelids (Tylopoda), pigs and peccaries (Suina), ruminants (Ruminantia), hippos (Ancodonta), and whales (Cetacea). (26 words)
Example sentences (11)
Collared peccaries, seen above, enjoy eating the cassava crops that Brazilian farmers depend on to survive.
However, there are exceptions to this as pigs, peccaries, hippos and duikers are known to have an omnivorous diet.
In European pigs, the tusk is long and curves around on itself, whereas in peccaries, the tusk is short and straight.
In the Americas, they are relatively species-poor, and are found only in South America, where only peccaries, llamas, vicunas, and capreolinae occur.
Peccaries, however, have a complex stomach that contains four compartments.
Shared modern nomenclature divides Cetartiodactyla in five subordinate taxa that are also monophyletic: camelids (Tylopoda), pigs and peccaries (Suina), ruminants (Ruminantia), hippos (Ancodonta), and whales (Cetacea).
Some studies proposed the late emergence of hippos is because they are relatives of peccaries and split recently, but this seems unlikely because of the molecular findings.
Such social behavior seems to have been the situation in extinct peccaries, as well.
The jaws and tusks of peccaries are adapted for crushing hard seeds and slicing into plant roots, and they also use their tusks for defending against predators.
Unlike other peccaries, it lives in pairs, or with one or two offspring.
With peccaries, llamas and deceit deer, the South American artiodactyls, compared to the other continents, has remained poor in species.
Common combinations with peccaries
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- peccaries llamas 2×
- of peccaries 2×