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  • hog plum
    [Atlantic; "plum-like fruit neglected because of its coarseness and proneness to be wormy" DJE, but cf. Sp. hobo, jobo idem
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  • hog pepper
    [Krio idem (Hancock p.c.)] n. a large variety of chili pepper, Capsicum sp. (Nassau)
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  • hog palmetto
    [cf. HOG CABBAGE 1 ] n. a tree: 1731 The Hog Palmeto. . .Trees grow to the height of ten
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  • hog nest
    /hohg nes/ [cf. OED horse nest mare's nest obs. → 1639, perhaps influenced by hog, its sty being a symbol
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  • hog lice
    n. sing, or pl. the woodlouse, Armadillidium vulgare, a gray insect which lives under stones and can roll its body
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  • hog grass
    [W Car. idem "bracken, which is the shelter of wild hogs in the hills" DJE; cf. Brit. dial. Mid idem,
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  • hoggish
     [Car.; cf. Brit. dial. Mid hoggish snappish, obstinate EDD; cf. also HOG argue] adj. ill-tempered; irritable: That man down so,
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  • Hog-catcher
    [from the herds of wild boar off which the inhabitants supposedly live] n. nickname for a native of Inagua. (Black)
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  • hog cabbage
    n. 1. [cf. CABBAGE PALM] a kind of palm tree: 1905 Cyclospathe northropi (Sha-tuck 232). 1920 Pseudophoenix vinifera (Britton 61).
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  • hog bush
    n. a shrub, Rhachicallis americana: 1920 (Britton 409). = SANDFLY BUSH, SALT-WATER BUSH, WILD THYME (Inagua)
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