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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) The bush hog. See under bush, a thicket.

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  • A good English dictionary includes, for example, such exotic words as babirussa (or babiroussa), a wild hog of the East Indies also known as staghog; peccary (or pecari), a nocturnal gregarious wild swine of the genus Tayyassu which is native to the western hemisphere; wart-hog, an African wild hog of the genus Phacochoerus; boshvark

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 2 1978

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