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Meanings of white-lipped peccary in English

Blackish peccary with whitish cheeks; larger than the collared peccary.

        Usage of white-lipped peccary in English
        1
        They are farther distinguished, by the forehead of the white-lipped peccary being more hollowed or concave than that of its congener.
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        2
        There are two species-theDicotyles tajacu and Dicotyles labiatus, or white-lippedpeccary; the latter being the larger and fiercer of the two.
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        3
        The larger species-thewhite-lippedpeccary-isdreaded by the farmers, as it frequently, in large numbers, attacks their crops, choosing always the most flourishing fields.
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        4
        The white- lipped peccaries make no effort to escape observation by being either noiseless or motionless; they trust for defence to their gregariousness and truculence.
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