babirusa

From scientific Latin babyroussa (later as specific name), and its source, Malay babi rusa, from babi (“pig”) + rusa (“deer”).

babirusa (plural babirusas)

1. Any of several mammals in the genus Babyrousa in the pig family Suidae, in which the upper tusk grows upward.
   • 2018, Hanneke Meijer, The Guardian, 17 May:

     And there are wild pigs, babirusas, with wrinkled skin and impressive upper tusks that instead of growing down, grow up and backwards toward the skull.

• Bola Batu babirusa, Buru babirusa, Malenge babirusa, North Sulawesi babirusa

From babi (“pig”) +‎ rusa (“deer”), from the resemblance of the tusks to antlers

babirusa (plural babirusa-babirusa, first-person possessive babirusaku, second-person possessive babirusamu, third-person possessive babirusanya)

1. Buru babirusa, Babyrousa babyrussa

Borrowed from Malay babirusa.

• IPA^(key): /babiˈɾusa/, [baβiˈɾusa]

babirusa f (plural babirusas)

1. babirusa

• “babirusa” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.