porcine

American

[pawr-sahyn, -sin] / ˈpɔr saɪn, -sɪn /

adjective

of or relating to swine.
resembling swine; hoggish; piggish.

porcine British

/ ˈpɔːsaɪn /

adjective

of, connected with, or characteristic of pigs

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porcine Scientific

/ pôr′sīn′ /

Relating to or resembling pigs.

Etymology

Origin of porcine

1650–60; < Latin porcīnus; pork, -ine ¹

Example Sentences

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Children who cannot have porcine gelatine in medical products will be offered an injection.

From BBC • Sep. 14, 2024

Instead, the Conservancy resorted to a five-year experimental birth control plan in 2009, injecting female bison with the contraceptive porcine zona pellucida.

From National Geographic • Jan. 18, 2024

Once they had generated enough backpack-wearing porcine macrophages, they infused them into the pigs' bloodstreams four hours after a TBI.

From Science Daily • Jan. 3, 2024

Pigs can carry viruses such as porcine cytomegalovirus, the one that was detected in Bennett, the person who received a pig heart transplant in 2022.

From Scientific American • Oct. 19, 2023

Spanish armies traveled in a porcine cloud; drawn by the supper trough, the lean, hungry animals circled the troops like darting dogs.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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