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Definition of porcine - 6 dictionary results

por⋅cine

  [pawr-sahyn, -sin]
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–adjective
1. of or pertaining to swine.
2. resembling swine; hoggish; piggish.
Origin:
1650–60; < L porcīnus; see pork, -ine 1
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por·cine   (pôr'sīn')   
adj.  Of or resembling swine or a pig: "a bald porcine old man" (Vladimir Nabokov).

[Middle English, from Old French porcin, from Latin porcīnus, from porcus, pig; see porko- in Indo-European roots.]
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Porcine

Por"cine\, a. [L. porcinus, from porcus a swine. See Pork.] Of or pertaining to swine; characteristic of the hog. "Porcine cheeks." --G. Eliot.
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porcine 
1656, from Fr. porcin, from L. porcinus "of a hog," from porcus "hog, pig" (see pork).
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Main Entry: por·cine
Pronunciation: 'por-"sIn
Function: adjective
: of or derived from swine <porcine heterografts>
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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porcine   (pôr'sīn')  Pronunciation Key 
Relating to or resembling pigs.
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