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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

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

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. In zoology, resembling or related to swine; suilline: as, porcine characters or affinities.
  2. Swinish; hoggish; piggish: applied to persons in derision or contempt.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Of, or pertaining to, the pig.
  2. adj. Overweight to the extent of resembling a pig; morbidly obese.

GNU Webster's 1913

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

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy
  2. adj. relating to or suggesting swine
  3. adj. repellently fat

Etymologies

  1. Middle English, from Old French porcin, from Latin porcīnus, from porcus, pig; see porko- in Indo-European roots.

Examples

  • “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.”

    The Wall Street Journal: Philippines Moves to Fight Pig Ebola

  • “As I watch the ways of Madam Pig, with her litter of piglets – "a wreath of girls with brothers intertwined" – I am led to think there are really wonderful advantages in porcine being.”

    Janey Canuck in the West

  • “The Rotarix vaccine has been found to contain a pig virus called porcine circovirus 1, or PCV1.”

    NewsInferno

  • “And then the day after this health care bill passes, the FDA announces that a popular rotovirus vaccine made by Merck is being halted because it is contaminated with a mysterious DNA sequence from a pig virus called porcine circovirus type 1 or PCV-1.”

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  • “Academic researchers found DNA from an unexpected virus, known as porcine circovirus 1 (PCV1) in the Rotarix vaccine, manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline.”

    Consumer Reports: Rotavirus vaccine for children investigated: What you should know

  • “Academic researchers found DNA from an unexpected virus, known as porcine circovirus 1 PCV1 in the Rotarix vaccine, manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline.”

    Consumer Reports: Rotavirus vaccine for children investigated: What you should know

  • “PCV2 is known as porcine circovirus closely associated with post-weaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS).”

    BioMed Central - Latest articles

  • “But he said some farmers had instead dumped their pigs across the border in Cambodia at knock-down prices, spreading the disease, which is also known as porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome.”

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper

  • “Local pork producers are constantly battling epidemics, the most recent being Blue Ear Disease (also known as porcine reproductive respiratory syndrome, PRRS), and frequently have to kill a large percentage of their herd in order to eradicate harmful diseases that could have been avoided by preventative medicine, and spot treatment of those noticed early.”

    ThePigSite - Global Pig Industry News Feeds

  • “VIET NAM - The veterinary sector has worked with provinces to ensure preventive measures have been taken to deal with worsening situation of blue-ear disease, otherwise known as porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS).”

    ThePigSite - Global Pig Industry News Feeds

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  • patiomensch A pretty cruel adjective, when applied to people. Apr 13, 2007

‘porcine’ has been looked up 1800 times, loved by 5 people, added to 69 lists, commented on 1 time, and has a Scrabble score of 11.