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porcine

/pawr-sahyn, -sin/US // ˈpɔr saɪn, -sɪn //UK // (ˈpɔːsaɪn) //

猪,猪的,猪肉,猪猡

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or relating to swine.
    • : resembling swine; hoggish; piggish.

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Examples

  • Doctors have been using porcine heart valves to replace damaged ones in humans since the 1960s.

  • Reuters hedline: “Deadly swine virus sweeps U.S.”  Disease is called porcine epidemic diarrhea.

  • I actually do think Chris Christine is too porcine to be elected president.

  • He was decidedly porcine in his disposition, very plebeian in his manners, and doubtless also in his sentiments.

  • From the depths of the gamut to the shrieky top again,—a droning that has something of porcine or wild-boar character.

  • On his return Greybrush found the passage littered with moss and leaves, while porcine snoring resounded throughout the earth.

  • He was not carnivorous, or a beast of prey, and ugly as he was, certainly looked better alive than he would as a porcine corpse.

  • Porcine, por′sīn, adj. pertaining to or resembling swine: swinish.