Crossword clues for babirussa
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Babiroussa \Bab`i*rous"sa\, ||Babirussa \Bab`i*rus"sa\, n. [F. babiroussa, fr. Malay b[=a]b[=i] hog + r[=u]sa deer.] (Zo["o]l.) A large hoglike quadruped ( Sus babirussa, syn. Porcus babirussa) of the East Indies, sometimes domesticated; the Indian hog. Its upper canine teeth or tusks are large and recurved.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of babiroussa English)
WordNet
n : Indonesian wild pig with enormous curved canine teeth [syn: babirusa, babiroussa, Babyrousa Babyrussa]
Usage examples of "babirussa".
These were necessary qualifications, because although he had two kinds of swine, the bearded pig and the babirussa, they had both been hunted at some not very remote period and from the beginning they had been wary.
It was recent, so recent that when it reached the edge of a spiny rattan-patch he saw the outer rim of the deep hoof-print fall in: what is more, this animal was almost certainly a babirussa of nine or ten score, the first he had seen since Thursday week.
He hung his apron on a branch to guide those who would carry the babirussa down and wiped his hands on his jacket - on his jacket, as he realized a moment too late, gazing at the stain on the fine white linen.
It was in fact a pig rooting, as fine a babirussa as he had ever seen: the animal was snorting and grunting at a great rate, wholly intent upon a wealth of tubers.
I had to run myself five minutes later, and I quite lost the track of my babirussa, a huge babirussa.