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Definition of Babirusa
1. Noun. Indonesian wild pig with enormous curved canine teeth.
Generic synonyms: Swine
Group relationships: Babyrousa, Genus Babyrousa
Definition of Babirusa
1. Noun. Any of several mammals in the genus ''Babyrousa'' in the pig family Suidae, in which the upper tusk grows upward. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Babirusa
1. a wild pig [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Babirusa
Literary usage of Babirusa
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka & New Guinea: With Notices of by Francis Henry Hill Guillemard (1889)
"There was a short struggle, and in less than five minutes the captive—a full-grown
female babirusa—was quietly SKULL OF babirusa. ..."
2. A Geographical History of Mammals by Richard Lydekker (1896)
"FORE PART OF SKULL OF babirusa (babirusa ... In the pig- tribe the babirusa (babirusa
... babirusa ..."
3. Australasia by Alfred Russel Wallace, Augustus Henry Keane (1883)
"Others again—as the ape, the anoa, a wild buffalo, and the babirusa, are altogether
peculiar. No animals at all nearly allied to them are to be found in any ..."
4. The Polar and Tropical Worlds: A Description of Man and Nature in the Polar by Georg Hartwig (1872)
"... African Boar—The Malayan babirusa. Finis. A MONG the animals belonging to the
Tropical World there are none more dis- -L\- tinctive than the great ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"On this latter view we may regard the tusks of the male babirusa as examples ...
Unlike ordinary wild pigs, the babirusa produces uniformly coloured young. ..."
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