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Babiroussa
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Babiroussa has 1 sense
- babiroussa(n = noun.animal) babirusa, babirussa, babyrousa babyrussa - Indonesian wild pig with enormous curved canine teeth; Array is a kind of swine
is a member of babyrousa, genus babyrousa
CIDE DICTIONARY
Babiroussa, n. [F. babiroussa, fr. Malay bābī hog + r deer.].
A large hoglike quadruped (Sus babirussa , syn. Porcus babirussa ) of the East Indies, sometimes domesticated; the Indian hog. Its upper canine teeth or tusks are large and recurved. [1913 Webster]
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