warthog

wart*hog

noun

{bc}a wild African hog ({it}Phacochoerus aethiopicus{/it}) that has large protruding tusks and in the male two pairs of rough {a_link|warty} excrescences on the face and that is sometimes placed in two separate species ({it}P. aethiopicus{/it} and {it}P. africanus{/it})