bush pig
- noun
- South African
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cerdo salvaje
- The documentary featured a bush pig foraging for roots and tubers in the forest.
- bush pig and antelope
Examples
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In Africa, the bush pig is often found in areas with dense vegetation.
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The flag shows a man holding a bush pig by the tail with his right hand and pointing to an elephant with the other.
Academic text (2002) -
Other forest animals, such as duikers (small antelopes) and bush pigs, may also be affected.
Academic text (2005) -
A bush pig wandered into our campsite, rooting through the underbrush for food.
Surface Forms
Morphology
bush + pig
The compound 'bush pig' is directly descriptive: it denotes a pig associated with or living in the bush, so a learner who knows 'bush' and 'pig' can infer the meaning. This follows common noun–noun compounding patterns and contains no idiomatic or metaphorical shift, making the sense immediately predictable to B1 learners.
Etymology
Bush pig comes from the simple idea of a pig living in the bush; people named the animal for where it lives. So the term means a 'wild pig' found in African bush and forests.
