Home › Words › B › babirusababirusababirusa means any mammal in the genus Babyrousa in the pig family Suidae, in which the upper tusk grows upward.EtymologyFrom scientific Latin babyroussa (later as specific name), and its source, Malay babi rusa, from babi (“pig”) + rusa (“deer”).nounAny mammal in the genus Babyrousa in the pig family Suidae, in which the upper tusk grows upward.e.g.“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.” — 2018 May 17, Hanneke Meijer, The Guardian:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.suid 63% match — Any of the family Suidae: a pig or a taxonomically related animal. vs babirusa →hog 57% match — Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar. vs babirusa →burramyid 54% match — Any of the pygmy possums in the family Burramyidae. vs babirusa →pecoran 53% match — Any ungulate of the infraorder Pecora vs babirusa →burramys 53% match — A small pygmy possum, Burramys parvus, of alpine southeast Australia. vs babirusa →bibovine 53% match — Of or relating to the genus Bibos or animals of this genus. vs babirusa →pygarg 52% match — An unidentified large animal with horns, possibly the addax, mentioned in the Bible (Deuteronomy 14:5) as one of the animals permitted for food. vs babirusa →bucconid 52% match — Any member of the family Bucconidae, the puffbirds. vs babirusa →