micropign.
/ˈmʌɪkrəʊˌpɪɡ/, U.S. /ˈmaɪkroʊˌpɪɡ/ A pig of a very small, docile, hairless variety developed in the United States, mainly for medical research, from a miniature breed originating in Yucatán, Mexico. Also (more widely): any of various relatively small pigs sometimes sold as household pets.
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micropig1985
1985 Official Gaz. 26 Feb. 710/1 Micropig for Dwarf Pigs for use in Laboratory Research... First use Jul. 17, 1984.
1986 Washington Post 5 Feb. (Health section) 5/3 After almost eight years of genetic selection, scientists in Colorado have bred a new, tiny pig that they say will be useful in medical research. The animal, called a micropig, weighs about as much as a beagle and is cleaner and less temperamental than its 800-pound farm cousins.
1988 D. Ing Chernobyl Syndrome 49 A micropig eats maybe one pound of feed a day, and may weigh 60 pounds fully grown!
1990 Hutchinson (Kansas) News 6 Aug. 9/3 The East and West coasts currently account for a micropig population of at least 8,000, according to Betty Beeman,..operator of the Potbellied Pig Registry Service Inc.
2001 Jrnl. Infectious Dis. 183 352/1 Three groups of Yucatan micropigs (8–10 kg) were housed in pairs.
2011 Express (Nexis) 6 Apr. 33 But micro-pigs are not an actual breed—they are simply a pig which has been crossed between a Kune Kune (the smallest pig one can get) and a Gloucester Old Spot or sometimes a Vietnamese Pot Bellied.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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