babirusa

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Noun

babirusa (plural babirusas)

1. Any of several mammals in the genus Babyrousa in the pig family Suidae, in which the upper tusk grows upward.
   • 2018, Hanneke Meijer, The Guardian, 17 May ↗:

     And there are wild pigs, babirusas, with wrinkled skin and impressive upper tusks that instead of growing down, grow up and backwards toward the skull.

Translations

• French: babiroussa
• German: (♂♀) Hirscheber, (♂♀) Babirusa, männlicher Hirscheber, weiblicher Hirscheber
• Italian: babirussa
• Portuguese: babirussa
• Russian: бабиру́сса
• Spanish: babirusa

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