Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The babirussa.
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Examples
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Babirusas (literally "pig-deer" in Bahasa-Indonesian) are pig-like animals characterized by the male's long recurved tusks that penetrate the upper lip.
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There are no very large animals, those peculiar to Celebes being the tailless baboon and the "pig-deer," which has tusks and curving horns.
Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson
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BABIRUSA ( "pig-deer"), the Malay name of the wild swine of Celebes and
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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Next day we started with our friend into the neighbouring forest, in chase of the _babirusa_ or pig-deer.
In the Eastern Seas William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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Babirusas, also known as pig-deer, hail mainly from the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.
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