English word senses marked with lifeform category "Pigs"

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• Berkshire (Proper name) A place in the United States:; A community of Sandy Hook, Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut.
• Berkshire (Proper name) A place in the United States:; A town in Tioga County, New York.
• Berkshire (Proper name) A place in the United States:; An unincorporated community and township in Delaware County, Ohio.
• Berkshire (Proper name) A place in the United States:; A town in Franklin County, Vermont.
• Buru babirusa (Noun) Babyrousa babyrussa, a pig-like animal native to Buru and the Sula Islands in Indonesia.
• Duroc (Noun) A pig of a reddish breed developed in North America.
• Kunekune (Noun) A small, hairy breed of domestic pig that originated in New Zealand.
• Large White (Noun) A domestic pig of a breed originating in Yorkshire.
• Mangalica (Noun) A domestic pig of a Hungarian breed developed in the mid-19th century, which grows a thick, curly coat of hair.
• Mexican hog (Noun) peccary
• Pig War (Proper name) A diplomatic dispute involving the United States and the United Kingdom over the Oregon Treaty boundary around the San Juan Islands, which began with an American farmer shooting a British company's pig in 1859.
• Poland China (Noun) A large, mostly black domestic pig of a breed from Ohio, United States, deriving from many breeds including the Berkshire and Hampshire.
• Sulawesi warty pig (Noun) The Celebes warty pig, Sus celebensis.
• Tamworth (Proper name) A community of Stone Mills, Lennox and Addington County, Ontario, Canada.
• Vietnamese pot-bellied pig (Noun) Synonym of potbellied pig.
• Welsh (Noun) The Welsh language.
• Welsh (Proper name) A town in Louisiana, United States, named for early landowner Henry Welsh.
• Welsh (Proper name) An unincorporated community in Ohio, United States, named for an early settler.
• Yorkshire pig (Noun) A domestic pig of a breed originating in Yorkshire.
• babiroussa (Noun) Any large hoglike quadruped, of the genus Babyrousa, found in the East Indies, sometimes domesticated, with its upper canine teeth or tusks large and recurved.
• babirusa (Noun) Any of several mammals in the genus Babyrousa in the pig family Suidae, in which the upper tusk grows upward.
• barling (Noun) A pole; (carpentry) the cross rafter of a roof.
• barrow (Noun) A small vehicle used to carry a load and pulled or pushed by hand.
• barrow (Noun) A wicker case in which salt is put to drain.
• barrow (Noun) A long sleeveless flannel garment for infants.
• boar (Noun) A wild boar (Sus scrofa), the wild ancestor of the domesticated pig.
• brood sow (Noun) A female pig kept for breeding.
• bush pig (Noun) An African pig of the genus Potamochoerus; Potamochoerus porcus or Potamochoerus larvatus.
• chazzer (Noun) A police officer, especially one who is corrupt.
• collared peccary (Noun) A small wild hog (Pecari tajacu), native to southern United States through to northern Argentina.
• deer-pig (Noun) Synonym of babirusa
• farrow (Noun) A litter of piglets.
• giant forest hog (Noun) Hylochoerus meinertzhageni, a large pig living in the jungles of West and Central Africa.
• gilt (Noun) A young female pig, at or nearing the age of first breeding.
• grice (Noun) A pig, especially a young pig, or its meat; sometimes specifically, a breed of wild pig or boar native to Scotland, now extinct.
• grunt (Noun) Any fish of the perciform family Haemulidae.
• grunter (Noun) One who grunts.
• ham (Noun) An amateur radio operator.
• herd boar (Noun) A stud boar, a male pig kept for breeding.
• hog (Verb) To take a rough cut, quickly removing material; to hog out.
• hogcote (Noun) A shed for pigs; a sty.
• hogget (Noun) The meat of a young sheep.
• hoghide (Noun) Leather made from the skin of a pig.
• hogskin (Noun) Leather tanned from the skin of a hog.
• huangana (Noun) A white-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari).
• javelina (Noun) The peccary, especially the collared peccary.
• micropig (Noun) A miniature breed of pig.
• minipig (Noun) A small pig of a breed used in biological research
• mudlark (Noun) One who scavenges in river or harbor mud for items of value, especially in London.
• mudlark (Noun) Any of various birds that are found in muddy places or build their nests with mud, especially Anthus petrosus and Alauda arvensis.
• mudlark (Noun) The Grallina cyanoleuca that builds its nest with mud into a bowl-like shape.
• mudlark (Verb) To scavenge in river or harbor mud for items of value.
• oink (Interjection) Drawing attention to male chauvinism (from the term male chauvinist pig).
• peccary (Noun) Any of the family Tayassuidae of mammals from the Americas, related to pigs and hippos.
• pig (Noun) Any of several mammalian species of the genus Sus, having cloven hooves, bristles and a nose adapted for digging; especially the domesticated animal Sus domesticus.
• pig (Noun) Any of several mammalian species of the genus Sus, having cloven hooves, bristles and a nose adapted for digging; especially the domesticated animal Sus domesticus.; A young swine, a piglet (contrasted with a hog, an adult swine).
• piggery (Noun) Piggish behaviour.
• piggy (Noun) A member of the police.
• piggy wiggy (Noun) a pig.
• piggy-wig (Noun) A pig.
• piglet (Noun) A young pig.
• pigling (Noun) A little or young pig; a piglet.
• pigsicle (Noun) A cold or frozen pig.
• pigskin (Noun) Leather made from the skin of a pig.
• pigsty (Noun) An enclosure where pigs are kept, either a building or part of one.
• porcicide (Noun) The killing of a pig or pigs.
• porciculture (Noun) The raising of pigs.
• porcine (Adjective) Overweight to the extent of resembling a pig; morbidly obese.
• porker (Noun) A pig, especially a castrated male, being fattened and raised for slaughter.
• porket (Noun) A young hog; a pig.
• porklet (Noun) A young pig, especially one that is to be raised to produce pork.
• porkling (Noun) A young pig; a porket.
• pot-bellied pig (Noun) Alternative form of potbellied pig.
• potbellied pig (Noun) A small Vietnamese domesticated pig, sometimes kept as a pet.
• pygmy hog (Noun) Porcula salvania, a tiny pig of India.
• quenk (Noun) Synonym of collared peccary
• razorback (Noun) The rorqual or finback whale.
• red river hog (Noun) A bush pig of species Potamochoerus porcus, native to forested areas of western and central Africa.
• saddleback (Noun) A roof in the same shape, having a gable at each end.
• saddleback (Noun) The great black-backed gull.
• saddleback (Noun) The bird Philesturnus carunculatus.
• saddleback (Noun) A raccoon oyster.
• sanglier (Noun) A full-grown wild boar.
• scissorbill (Noun) A foolish worker who lacks class consciousness and opposes unions; also, a company man, a drone, .
• shoat (Noun) A sheep–goat hybrid (whether artificially produced or the result of animals from these species naturally intermating).
• skunk pig (Noun) javelina
• snout (Noun) Tobacco; cigarettes.
• sooey (Interjection) A cry to get the attention of swine.
• sounder (Noun) An instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
• sow (Noun) A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, etc.
• squeaker (Noun) An animal that squeaks.; Any of genus Synodontis, of catfish.
• squeal (Noun) A high-pitched sound, such as the scream of a child or a female person, or noisy worn-down brake pads.
• suid (Noun) Any of the family Suidae of pigs and related creatures.
• suid (Adjective) Of or relating to the family Suidae of pigs and related creatures.
• swine (Noun) A pig (the animal). The Zimmerman farm introduced swine to their husbandry.; The Zimmerman farm introduced swine to their husbandry.
• tayassuid (Noun) Any peccary of the family Tayassuidae
• truffle hog (Noun) A domestic pig used for extraction of truffles.
• warthog (Noun) A wild pig of the genus Phacochoerus, native to Africa.
• warthoglet (Noun) A baby warthog.
• when pigs fly (Adverb) Never.
• white-lipped peccary (Noun) Tayassu pecari, widespread in much of tropical South America, less so in Central America.
• wild boar (Noun) A wild swine native to Eurasia and North Africa (Sus scrofa), now widely distributed elsewhere and ancestor of most domestic pig breeds.
• wild pig (Noun) Synonym of wild boar
• yelt (Noun) A young sow who has not yet had a litter.

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