javelina

plural javelinas · alternative jabalina · alternative javeli

1. CanadaUSA peccary (Tayassuidae spp.), especially a collared peccary (Dicotyles tajacu).First known use 19th c.

   The Javelina (Peccari) is an animal peculiar so far as I know to Spanish America.

   1831, Benjamin Lundy, editor, The Genius of Universal Emancipation, page 117

   2 more examples

   Some well-mounted heads of deer and one of an enormous black javeli projected from the walls.

   1903 February, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Hygeia at the Solito”, in Everybody’s Magazine, volume VIII, number 2, New York, N.Y.: John Wanamaker, →ISSN, page 174, column 2

   We […] were ready to send some prickly pears to the next world when the most unfortunate group of javelina on earth walked into view.

   2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 264