babirusa
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See also: babi rusa
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From scientific Latin babyroussa (later as specific name), and its source, Malay babi rusa, from babi (“pig”) + rusa (“deer”).
Noun
[edit]babirusa (plural babirusas)
- Any of several mammals in the genus Babyrousa in the pig family Suidae, in which the upper tusk grows upward.
- 2018 May 17, Hanneke Meijer, The Guardian[1]:
- 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.
Hyponyms
[edit]Translations
[edit]a member of the genus Babyrousa
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Indonesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From babi (“pig”) + rusa (“deer”), from the resemblance of the tusks to antlers.
Noun
[edit]babirusa (first-person possessive babirusaku, second-person possessive babirusamu, third-person possessive babirusanya)
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]babirusa m (plural babirusas)
Further reading
[edit]- “babirusa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
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- en:Pigs
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