Definition of Babirousa
{ ||Bab`i*rous"sa, ||Bab`i*rus"sa} (&?;),
n. [F. babiroussa, fr. Malay
bābī hog + rūsa deer.] (Zoöl.)
A large hoglike quadruped (Sus, or Porcus, babirussa) of the
East Indies, sometimes domesticated; the Indian hog. Its upper canine teeth
or tusks are large and recurved.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- A large hoglike quadruped, of the genus Babyrousa, found in the East Indies, sometimes domesticated; the Indian hog. Its upper canine teeth or tusks are large and recurved.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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