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from The Century Dictionary.
- Those artiodactyl quadrupeds which do not chew the cud, as swine and hippopotamuses.
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Of the non-ruminantia we have only the Suidae -- the peccaries belonging to America, and the hippopotami to Africa.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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