Meaning of PORCINE
| Pronunciation: | | 'porsin
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- [adj] resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy; "piggish table manners"; "the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father"; "swinish slavering over food"
- [adj] repellently fat; "a bald porcine old man"
- [adj] relating to or suggesting swine; "comparison between human and porcine pleasures"
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| | Synonyms: | | fat, gluttonous, gross, hoggish, piggish, piggy, swinish |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Por"cine\, a. [L. porcinus, from porcus a swine. See
{Pork}.]
Of or pertaining to swine; characteristic of the hog.
``Porcine cheeks.'' --G. Eliot.
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| Biology Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Relating to, affecting, resembling or derived from a pig. |
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