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Porcine   Listen
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Porcine  adj.  Of or pertaining to swine; characteristic of the hog. "Porcine cheeks."






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"Porcine" Quotes from Famous Books



... from opposite sides of a barbed wire fence. Yet Isinglass retained the most complete mastery of his ferocious-looking protege, and beneath his skilful massage Hyldebrand would throw himself upon the ground and guggle in a porcine ecstacy. ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Aug 15, 1917 • Various

... between the existing forms of the odd-toed group of ungulates (of which horses, rhinoceroses, and tapirs, are the principal representatives) are most bridged over by palaeontology, and somewhat the same may be said of the even-toed group, to which the ruminants and the porcine genus belong. "Moreover, the lines of both groups to a certain extent approximate, but, within the limits of our knowledge, they do not meet. . - . Was the order according to which the introduction ...
— Darwiniana - Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism • Asa Gray

... quickly for him. He was turning to go when his friend, Lovak, came to him. No, Lovak had not seen DeBar. But he had news. That day the authorities—the police—had confiscated twenty dressed hogs, and in each porcine carcass they had found four-quart bottles of whisky, artistically imbedded in the leaf-lard fat. The day before those same authorities had confiscated a barrel of "kerosene." They were becoming altogether too officious, ...
— The Hunted Woman • James Oliver Curwood



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