WARTHOG


Meaning of WARTHOG in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈwȯrt-ˌhȯg, -ˌhäg ]

noun

Date: 1840

: a wild African hog ( Phacochoerus aethiopicus ) that has large protruding tusks and in the male two pairs of rough warty excrescences on the face and that is sometimes placed in two separate species ( P. aethiopicus and P. africanus )

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