Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The East Indian wild hog or horned hog.
- noun [capitalized] A genus of setiferous pachydermatous ungulate quadrupeds, of the order Artiodactyla, or even-toed ungulates, and family Suidæ, containing only the babirussa.
- noun Also spelled babyrussa, babyroussa.
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- noun Alternative form of
babiroussa .
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- noun Indonesian wild pig with enormous curved canine teeth
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Examples
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But the most striking character of the babirussa is to be found in its tusks.
Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys Mayne Reid 1850
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The babirussa inhabits marshy thickets and forests; and is hunted for its flesh -- which is highly prized both by the natives and foreigners.
Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys Mayne Reid 1850
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The landscape design software of antidote safekeeping is to babirussa the echinops to tulle your chaenopsis to module that grudge sixpence for your napoleon or anovulant.
Rational Review 2009
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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
chained_bear commented on the word babirussa
"'You were flying from the bees like a deer—such leaps! It is a dangerous corner, by the red rock: I had to run myself five minutes later, and I quite lost the track of my babirussa, a huge babirussa.'"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Thirteen Gun Salute, 200
March 4, 2008
bilby commented on the word babirussa
Should be spelled babirusa, from babi-pig + rusa-deer. There is no double 's' in Indonesian.
October 15, 2008