hell pig

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Noun[edit]

hell pig (plural hell pigs)

  1. (zoology) An extinct pig-like mammal of the family Entelodontidae; an entelodont.
    • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 86:
      As if hell pigs were not enough of a blight on the Oligocene landscape, Europe was home to two more groups of pig-like creatures.
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