truffle hog

English

Etymology

From truffle ‎ hog from being swine used to hunt for buried truffles.

Noun

truffle hog (plural truffle hogs)

1. A domestic pig used for extraction of truffles.

Synonyms

• truffle pig

Translations

pig used for finding truffles

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 松露豬／松露猪 (zh) (sōnglù zhū)

• Dutch: truffelvarken n
• Finnish: tryffelisika (fi)
• French: cochon truffier m
• German: Trüffelschwein (de) n
• Japanese: トリュフ豚 (toryufu-buta)
• Polish: świnia na trufle f
• Swedish: tryffelgris c, tryffelsvin n