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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. From the Latin adjective porcinus, from the noun porcus ("pig"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Old French porcin, from Latin porcīnus, from porcus, pig; see porko- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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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equivalents (2)

Other words for ‘porcine’

  1. gluttonous
  1. fat

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Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. ursine
  2. beaklike
  3. prescrition
  4. piggish
  1. pre-fall
  2. scatology
  3. ultra-sensitive
  4. whiskery
  1. prehensile
  2. encephalopathy
  3. overloud
  4. turned-up
  1. trunk-like
  2. runny
  3. warty
  4. adenoidal
  1. farmer-like
  2. murine
  3. inhaled
  4. down-pointing

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