dictionary definitions for "boar"


From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:

  boar
      n 1: Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent
           tusks from which most domestic swine come; introduced in
           United States [syn: wild boar, Sus scrofa]
      2: an uncastrated male hog

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Boar \Boar\ (b[=o]r), n. [OE. bar, bor, bore, AS. b[=a]r; akin
     to OHG. p[=e]r, MHG. b[=e]r, G. b[aum]r, boar (but not
     b[aum]r bear), and perh. Russ. borov' boar.] (Zool.)
     The uncastrated male of swine; specifically, the wild hog.
     [1913 Webster]


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