Definition of "porcine" [por•cine]

• Of or resembling swine or a pig: "a bald porcine old man” ( Vladimir Nabokov). (adjective)

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• "In August, Philippine authorities sent samples from the dead pigs to the Plum Island Animal Disease Center in New York, where scientists detected the presence of several diseases, including a devastating pig virus known as porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome, or blue-ear pig disease."
• "As I watch the ways of Madam Pig, with her litter of piglets – "a wreath of girls with brothers intertwined" – I am led to think there are really wonderful advantages in porcine being."
• "The Rotarix vaccine has been found to contain a pig virus called porcine circovirus 1, or PCV1."