Definition of "wild boar" [wild boar]

• A wild pig (Sus scrofa) of Eurasia and northern Africa, having dark dense bristles. It is the ancestor of the domestic hog. (noun)

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• "The tracks of wild boar are all round the shallows between clumps of yellow-green euphorbia and herb Robert."
• "In 1603 the manor and forest had recently been bought by Sir Richard Grobham, an enthusiastic hunter who was to slay the last wild boar in England in 1624."
• "When I showed a stuffed snake to a Peccary, the hair rose in a wonderful manner along its back; and so it does with a wild boar when enraged."