porcine
pronunciation
How to pronounce porcine in British English:
UK [ˈpɔ:saɪn]
How to pronounce porcine in American English:
US [ˈpɔrsaɪn]
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- Adjective:
- relating to or suggesting swine
- repellently fat
- resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy
Word Origin
- porcine (adj.)
- early 15c., "pertaining to swine; swinish," from Old French porcin or directly from Latin porcinus "of a hog," from porcus "hog, pig" (see pork (n.)).
Example
- 1. Players use gravity and inertia to flick cartoon birds into structures hiding unsuspecting porcine antagonists .
- 2. Establishment of a mice infection model with porcine cryptosporidium .
- 3. Clinical observation of different thickness acellular porcine skin as covering microskin in extensive deep burns .
- 4. A bald porcine old man .
- 5. Effect factors of porcine oocytes in vitro maturation .