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Scorpaena porcus
Pigfoot Pig"foot`, n. (Zo["o]l.) A marine fish (Scorp[ae]na porcus), native of Europe. It is reddish brown, mottled with dark brown and black.
Sus or Porcus babirussa
Babiroussa Bab`i*rous"sa, Babirussa Bab`i*rus"sa, n. [F. babiroussa, fr. Malay b[=a]b[=i] hog + r[=u]sa deer.] (Zo["o]l.) A large hoglike quadruped (Sus, or Porcus, babirussa) of the East Indies, sometimes domesticated; the Indian hog. Its upper canine teeth or tusks are large and recurved.

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- of Eris.[citation needed] The origins of Orcus may have lain in Etruscan religion. The so-called "Tomb of Orcus", an Etruscan site at Tarquinia, is a misnomer...
- Orcus (minor-planet designation 90482 Orcus) is a large trans-Neptunian object and likely dwarf planet located in the Kuiper belt, with one large moon...
- Orcus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Orcus was a Roman god of the underworld. Orcus may also refer to: 90482 Orcus, a Kuiper belt object Orcus (beetle)...
- designation (90482) Orcus I; provisional designation S/2005 (90482) 1) is a natural satellite or moon of the large trans-Neptunian object 90482 Orcus. It was discovered...
- NACNVAIASI ΘAMCE LE… Orcus I was built between 470 and 450 BC (perhaps by a man named Leive; see below); a separate hypogeum, Orcus II, was built c. 325...
- Sedna and Orcus. The IAU itself has called Quaoar a dwarf planet in a 2022–2023 annual report. More bodies have been proposed, such as Orcus, Salacia and...
- to be derived from the Latin word/name Orcus, though Tolkien himself expressed doubt about this. The term orcus is glossed as "orc, þyrs, oððe hel-deofol"...
- Orcus is a genus of lady beetles in the family Coccinellidae. There are at least 18 described species in Orcus, found in Australia, New Guinea, New Caledonia...
- The Wand of Orcus is a fictional magical weapon described in various Dungeons & Dragons media. Because of the po****rity of Orcus as a villain within...
- Pegasus, the winged horse Two sirens, probably Proserpina, wife of Pluto Orcus with its mouth wide open and on whose upper lip it is inscribed "OGNI PENSIERO...