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Webster 1913 Edition
Babirussa
{ ‖
, Babˊi-rous′sa
, ‖Babˊi-rus′sa
}Noun.
[F.
babiroussa
, fr. Malay bābī
hog + rūsa
deer.] (Zool.)
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.