Captain Cookern.
/ˌkaptᵻn ˈkʊkə/, U.S. /ˌkæptən ˈkʊkər/, New Zealand English /ˌkɛptən ˈkʊkə/ New Zealand.
A wild boar, Sus scrofa (supposedly descended from the domesticated pigs introduced into New Zealand by Cook).
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > [noun] > group Suiformes (hippos and pigs) > family Suidae (swine) > sus scrofa (wild boar and descendants) > wild boar
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1879 N.Z. Country Jrnl. 3 55 The immense tusks..attest..the size of the wild boars or ‘Captain Cooks’ as the patriarchs are generally termed.
1892 W. E. Swanton Notes on N.Z. 116 The old boars among them are called ‘Captain Cooks’, after the esteemed founder of their order.
1902 W. S. Walker Zealandia's Guerdon iv. 42 [The dog] got..‘bailed up’ a regular ‘Captain Cooker’, long, lean and very muscular.
1957 D. Glover in J. Reid Kiwi Laughs (1961) 206 He has taken the liberty of bringing along a complete history of the district from the sighting of the first Captain Cooker by a white man.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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