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Porcine

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Of or resembling swine or a pig: "a bald porcine old man” ( Vladimir Nabokov).

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Of, or pertaining to, the pig.

adj. Overweight to the extent of resembling a pig; morbidly obese.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Of or pertaining to swine; characteristic of the hog.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

In zoology, resembling or related to swine; suilline: as, porcine characters or affinities.

Swinish; hoggish; piggish: applied to persons in derision or contempt.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy

adj. relating to or suggesting swine

adj. repellently fat

Word Usage

"In August, Philippine authorities sent samples from the dead pigs to the Plum Island Animal Disease Center in New York, where scientists detected the presence of several diseases, including a devastating pig virus known as porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome, or blue-ear pig disease."

Equivalent

gluttonous fat

Same Context

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