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javelina

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8 lettersPronunciation /havəˈliːnə/Part of speech nounSorted aaeijlnvStarts with JEnds with A0 clues
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Definitions

  1. A peccary, a pig-like mammal of the southwestern United States and Latin America.

Word origin

From Spanish javalina, jabalina, feminine form of jabalí (“wild boar”), from Andalusian Arabic جَبَلِي (jabalī) (in خِنْزِير جَبَلِيّ (ḵinzīr jabaliyy, “mountain pig”)), from Arabic جَبَل (jabal, “mountain”). Cognate with Portuguese javalina, and similar in other Iberian languages.

Used in a sentence

  • The Javelina (Peccari) is an animal peculiar so far as I know to Spanish America.
  • Some well-mounted heads of deer and one of an enormous black javeli projected from the walls.
  • We […] were ready to send some prickly pears to the next world when the most unfortunate group of javelina on earth walked into view.

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