SWINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does swine mean? 

• SWINE (noun)
  The noun SWINE has 1 sense:

1. stout-bodied short-legged omnivorous animals

  Familiarity information: SWINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SWINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Stout-bodied short-legged omnivorous animals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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 

And was I, too, one of his swine? I thought.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Swine flu is an infection caused by a virus.

(H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

An antibacterial agent used in swine.

(Carbadox, NCI Thesaurus)

"Surely you don't desire the approval of the bourgeois swine that read the newspapers?"

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

B. suis is found in swine and is pathogenic to these species as well as causes brucellosis in humans.

(Brucella suis, NCI Thesaurus)

E. rhusiopathiae is found in a variety of host animals including fish and swine as well as in feces and sewage.

(Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae, NCI Thesaurus)

This pig breed is red-colored with partially drooping ears and is one of the most aggressive breeds of swine.

(Duroc Pig, NCI Thesaurus)

P. indolicus is found in cattle, swine, and rats and is pathogenic to humans and possibly animals.

(Peptoniphilus indolicus, NCI Thesaurus)

'The ship can scarce last much longer, my masters,' quoth I. 'That is your business, old swine's-head,' cried the black galliard.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

B. uniformis is found in the human and swine intestinal tract, but can be pathogenic in other locations.

(Bacteroides uniformis, NCI Thesaurus)