wart hog
/'wɒ:t'hɒg/
📖 中文释义
- 疣猪
📘 English Definition(英文释义)
- Either one of two species of large, savage African wild
- hogs of the genus Phacoch/rus. These animals have a pair of large,
- rough, fleshy tubercles behind the tusks and second pair behind the
- eyes. The tusks are large and strong, and both pairs curve upward. The
- body is scantily covered with bristles, but there is long dorsal mane.
- The South African species (Phacoch/rus Aethiopicus) is the best known.
- Called also vlacke vark. The second species (P. Aeliani) is native of
- the coasts of the Red Sea.