javelina

Questions about javelina

What is another word for javelina?

It depends which javelina you mean. In the sense “dark grey peccary with an indistinct white collar; of semi desert areas of Mexico and southwestern United States”, the synonyms are collared peccary, Tayassu angulatus, Tayassu tajacu, Peccari angulatus. Across all 1 sense there are 4 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of javelina?

WordNet records no antonym for javelina. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for javelina come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of javelina

• Full entry for javelinaAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for javelinaWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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