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How to pronounce porcine in English?

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Synonyms gross


a bald porcine old man.
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Synonyms hoggish, piggish, piggy, swinish


the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father.
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comparison between human and porcine pleasures.

Examples of porcine

porcine
This work provides a viable approach for enhancing the vitality of porcine sperm.
From the nature.com
Mom wants to protect her from the world and its scorn at her porcine proboscis.
From the freep.com
Just imagine what it would make of the porcine Eric Pickles, super-shiny Cameron.
From the guardian.co.uk
The Local will probably get a firsthand look at the porcine mosaic any day now.
From the eastvillage.thelocal.nytimes.com
Analyses of pig genomes provide insight into porcine demography and evolution.
From the sciencedaily.com
There are chipped wood floors, chipped ceilings, antlers and porcine paraphernalia.
From the bloomberg.com
An example is porcine heart valve transplant, which is quite common and successful.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The technique had previously been reported as successful in a porcine model.
From the sciencedaily.com
Tests on 160 patients given porcine cell transplants revealed no signs of infection.
From the newscientist.com
More examples
  • Relating to or suggesting swine; "comparison between human and porcine pleasures"
  • Gross: repellently fat; "a bald porcine old man"
  • Hoggish: resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy; "piggish table manners"; "the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father"; "swinish slavering over food"
  • Suidae is the biological family to which domestic pigs and their wild relatives belong. In addition to numerous fossil species, up to sixteen extant species are currently recognized, including the domestic pig Sus scrofa or S. domesticus. ...
  • Of, or pertaining to, the pig; Overweight to the extent of resembling a pig; morbidly obese
  • Another name for tissue from a pig (animal tissue)
  • Related to or derived from pig.
  • Of or pertaining to swine (pigs)