| 单词 | swine |
| 释义 | swine (once / 1088 pages) n A swine is a pig or a big ol’ nasty hog. Swine have short legs, thick bodies, and they eat just about anything. If someone acts like a pig, call him a swine. Although it’s old fashioned, the word swine comes in handy if you need another word for hog, like if you’re really into writing poems about pigs. Swine — which is also the plural form, like fish — are common farm animals. Some are eaten as bacon, some are kept as pets. Swine themselves are omnivorous, so they'll eat meat, vegetables, or, well, garbage. WORD FAMILYswine: swines, swinish+/swinish: swinishly USAGE EXAMPLESAfrican swine fever is not transmitted to humans. Reuters(Dec 13, 2016) Since 1997, 40 million hens, cows, goats, pigs and sheep have been slaughtered to contain outbreaks including swine flu, foot-and-mouth disease and BSE. The Guardian(Nov 26, 2016) The book charts his descent into conspiracy theories about African swine fever. New York Times(Nov 21, 2016) n stout-bodied short-legged omnivorous animals Hypo|Hyper Sus scrofa, grunter, hog, pig, squealer domestic swine boaran uncastrated male hog sowan adult female hog razorback, razorback hog, razorbacked hoga mongrel hog with a thin body and long legs and a ridged back; a wild or semi-wild descendant of improved breeds; found chiefly in the southeastern United States Sus scrofa, boar, wild boarOld World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come; introduced in United States Babyrousa Babyrussa, babiroussa, babirusa, babirussaIndonesian wild pig with enormous curved canine teeth warthogAfrican wild swine with warty protuberances on the face and large protruding tusks porkera pig fattened to provide meat artiodactyl, artiodactyl mammal, even-toed ungulate placental mammal having hooves with an even number of functional toes on each foot |
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