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SWINE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Stout-bodied short-legged omnivorous animals
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("swine" is a kind of...):
artiodactyl; artiodactyl mammal; even-toed ungulate (placental mammal having hooves with an even number of functional toes on each foot)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "swine"):
grunter; hog; pig; squealer; Sus scrofa (domestic swine)
boar (an uncastrated male hog)
sow (an adult female hog)
razorback; razorback hog; razorbacked hog (a mongrel hog with a thin body and long legs and a ridged back; a wild or semi-wild descendant of improved breeds; found chiefly in the southeastern United States)
boar; Sus scrofa; wild boar (Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come; introduced in United States)
babiroussa; babirusa; babirussa; Babyrousa Babyrussa (Indonesian wild pig with enormous curved canine teeth)
warthog (African wild swine with warty protuberances on the face and large protruding tusks)
Holonyms ("swine" is a member of...):
family Suidae; Suidae (pigs; hogs; boars)
Context examples:
“Here’s Joe Berks drinkin’ gin out of a mug, and you know what a swine he is when he’s drunk.”
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"So long as we are among the thick trees these swine are our masters," said he.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A strain of swine influenza A virus identified as the causative agent of the swine flu epidemic of Spring 2009.
(Influenza A (H1N1) Virus, NCI Thesaurus)
Rarely reported in humans prior to 2009, the disease is caused by a mutated strain of swine influenza A (H1N1) virus.
(H1N1 Influenza, NCI Thesaurus)
The effort, which was supported by the National Pork Board, arose from a need to provide livestock producers with alternatives to using dietary antibiotics as a growth-promoting agent in swine.
(Antibiotic Alternative Scores Well in Second Round of Swine Trials, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Minnesota5 (swine strain), DXL (poultry strain), RB51 (vaccine strain of Brucella abortus)
(Animal Organism Strain, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)
An inbred strain of miniature swine developed by Sachs et al at the NIH in 1976 from a cross between a Hormel pig and a Vita Vet miniature pig.
(NIH Minipig, NCI Thesaurus)
Calcium oxide is mainly used in nickel-cadmium batteries, but is also used in electroplating, in the production of plastics and nitrile rubbers and as a nematocide and ascaricide in swine.
(Cadmium Oxide, NCI Thesaurus)
I could see distinctly the limbs of these vermin with my naked eye, much better than those of a European louse through a microscope, and their snouts with which they rooted like swine.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
One evening, in the beginning of June, I had stayed out very late with Mary Ann in the wood; we had, as usual, separated ourselves from the others, and had wandered far; so far that we lost our way, and had to ask it at a lonely cottage, where a man and woman lived, who looked after a herd of half-wild swine that fed on the mast in the wood.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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