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Wart hog

Wart hog \Wart" hog`\ (Zo["o]l.) Either one of two species of large, savage African wild hogs of the genus Phacoch[oe]rus. These animals have a pair of large, rough, fleshy tubercles behind the tusks and second pair behind the eyes. The tusks are large and strong, and both pairs curve upward. The body is scantily covered with bristles, but there is long dorsal mane. The South African species ( Phacoch[oe]rus [AE]thiopicus) is the best known. Called also vlacke vark. The second species ( Phacoch[oe]rus [AE]liani) is native of the coasts of the Red Sea.

Usage examples of "wart hog".

But if I were a free agent like you, and couldn't do better than that New Zealand wart hog, I think I'd go in for postcards.

No doubt a gentleman wart hog feels the same way about a lady wart hog but, if so, both of us are very sincere.

She caught one of the Hottentots a crashing blow between the shoulders and he was hurled into a thorn bush, his jacket smoking with live coals, shrieking like a wounded wart hog.