Wessex Saddleback

noun

1

: an old British breed of medium-sized black white-belted swine perhaps not distinct from the American Hampshire

2

or Wessex saddleback plural -s : an animal of the Wessex Saddleback breed

Word History

Etymology

from Wessex, England, wehre it was originally bred

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