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Wart Hog

African hog of the genus Phacochœrus. These hogs resemble the true hogs in most of their characters, and particularly in their feet, but remarkably differ from them in their dentition: The number of teeth is much WART HOG reduced; the canines become the large tusks, and in the adult the last molar only is found in each jaw, which grows to an enormous size as in the elephant.

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