Hypertext Webster Gateway: "puerco"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Puerco \Pu*er"co\, n. [Sp.]
A hog.
{Puerco beds} (Geol.), a name given to certain strata
belonging to the earliest Eocene. They are developed in
Northwestern New Mexico, along the Rio Puerco, and are
characterized by their mammalian remains.
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