Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A swine of the genus Phacochœrus, of which there are several species, the best-known being the halluf of North Africa, P. æliani, and the vlack-vark of South Africa, P. æhiopicus.
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Examples
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In Xaranna two days earlier, our guides, following tracks in the dirt and the alarm calls of other animals, had impressively led us to a young female leopard; we saw her testing her hunting skills on a wart-hog that was too big and experienced to land in her grasp.
Lions, Leopards and Luxury Sara Clemence 2011
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The shot was repeated so many times, and Dan smashed so many bones, that I was afraid we were going to run out of wart-hog (or tapir) skulls.
Tin 2010
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Now, I argued, he would choose a safe place, for the wart-hog, hideous though he is, is a wise beast.
Prester John 2005
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I saw that it was a big wart-hog, and began to think.
Prester John 2005
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I was not the only one who was wallowing in sentiment like a wart-hog in a mud bath; even Kratas and Remrem and Astes, for all their hardbitten and cavalier attitudes which they usually cultivated so assiduously, were grinning like idiots, and I swear I saw more than one pair of wet eyes in their ranks.
River God Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1993
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The shot was repeated so many times, and Dan smashed so many bones, that I was afraid we were going to run out of wart-hog (or tapir) skulls.
The Lost Worlds of 2001 Clarke, Arthur C. 1972
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Only the implicitly violent took his attention: the vultures, the hyena, the wart-hog, the possibility of lion and the scarcity of cheetah.
Smokescreen Francis, Dick 1972
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Only the implicitly violent took his attention: the vultures, the hyena, the wart-hog, the possibility of lion and the scarcity of cheetah.
Smokescreen Francis, Dick 1972
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Then he motioned to the driver to go on and the car moved slowly along, the driver avoiding wart-hog holes and driving around the mud castles ants had built.
The Short Stories Ernest Hemingway 1953
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This is very poor stuff and worthy only of a creature who combines with the intellectual development of a gorilla the pachymenia of the rhinoceros and the dental physiognomy of the wart-hog.
Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 21, 1914 Various
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