bush pig
See also: bushpig
English
Alternative forms
- bush-pig, bushpig (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.)
Pronunciation
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Noun
- An African pig of the genus Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.; Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template. or Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template..
- 1969, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology[1], volume 63, page 19:
- The commonest game animals are vervet and colobus monkey, baboon, common duiker, bush-pig and grysbok.
- 2006, Armin Prinz (editor), Hunting Food and Drinking Wine: Proceedings of the conference in Poysdorf, 2003[2], page 208:
- There are two types of bohonda net hunts. One type is directed by a nkangohonda (bush pig charmer), a sorcerer-hunter who handles bush pigs as easily as if they were dogs, gathering herds of them about him and even holding them by their necks.
- 2011, Britannica Educational Publishing, Grazers[3], page 175:
- The bush pig (Potamochoerus porcus) is an African member of the pig family, Suidae, resembling a boar but with long body hair and tassels of hair on its ears.
- (Australia, slang, derogatory) A fat and very ugly woman.
Hyponyms
- (Potamochoerus porcus): red river hog
Translations
pig of the genus Potamochoerus
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