Babirusa Definition

babəro͝osə, bäbəro͝osə
noun
Any of several wild pigs of the genus Babyrousa of Indonesian forests, the male of which has two pairs of long, upward-curving tusks.
American Heritage
A wild pig (Babyrousa babyrussa) of the East Indies with backward-curving tusks: the upper pair grow through the middle of the snout.
Webster's New World

Any of several mammals in the genus Babyrousa in the pig family Suidae, in which the upper tusk grows upward.

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Singular:
babirusa
Plural:
babirusas

Origin of Babirusa

  • Malay babirusa babi hog rusa deer

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Babirusa Sentence Examples

  • Unlike ordinary wild pigs, the babirusa produces uniformly coloured young.

  • I should be inclined to believe rather that these tusks were once useful, and were then worn Old Male Babirusa (Babirusa alfurus).

  • On this latter view we may regard the tusks of the male babirusa as examples of redundant development, analogous to that of the single pair of lower teeth in some of the beaked whales.

  • The native flora is rich, and teak, ebony and canari trees are especially abundant; the fauna, which is similarly varied, includes the babirusa, which occurs in this island only of the Moluccas.

  • Wild oxen of the Sunda race, not to be in any way confounded with the Malayan seladang or gaur, are rare, but the whole country swarms with wild swine, and the babirusa, a pig with curious horn-like tusks, is not uncommon.

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