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Definition of Hog badger

1. Noun. Southeast Asian badger with a snout like a pig.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hog Badger

Literary usage of Hog badger

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Sportsman's Dictionary: Or The Gentleman's Companion: for Town and ...Sports (1800)
"The hog badger, being iat and lazy, earths in open, ... and they are longer legged than the hog-badger: they accompany not together,. yet they both prey on ..."

2. The Sportsman's Dictionary: Or, The Country Gentleman's Companion, in All ...Sports (1735)
"The hog Badger being fat and lazy, earths in open, ... and they are longer legged than the hog badger: they accompany not together, yet they both prey on ..."

3. The Mammals of India: A Natural History of All the Animals Known to Inhabit by Thomas Claverhill Jerdon (1874)
"THE HOG-BADGER. Descr.—Upper parts with the head, throat, ... This very curious hog-badger has been found within our province in the Nepal and Sikim ..."

4. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1827)
"Obs. The country people pretend to distinguish two varieties, under the names of the Dog-Badger and the Hog- Badger, but they are not authenticated. 330. 2. ..."

5. A Dictionary of the Holy Bible by John Brown (1816)
"... is tlie hog-badger or brock. Its body !lv:i. Its hair long and stiff as bristles ; tha oo the back is ..."

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