Thesaurus / porcine
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More recently, scientists have focused on pigs, largely because porcine organs are about the size of adult humans’, and the animals are already raised on an industrial scale.
WILL ANIMAL-TO-HUMAN ORGAN TRANSPLANTS OVERCOME THEIR COMPLICATED HISTORY?LAURA BEILJANUARY 31, 2022SCIENCE NEWSDoctors have been using porcine heart valves to replace damaged ones in humans since the 1960s.
SCIENCE OF ‘SEINFELD’LGBTQ-EDITORJUNE 15, 2020NO STRAIGHT NEWSHe was decidedly porcine in his disposition, very plebeian in his manners, and doubtless also in his sentiments.
HUDSON BAYR.M. BALLANTYNEFrom the depths of the gamut to the shrieky top again,—a droning that has something of porcine or wild-boar character.
HISTORY OF FRIEDRICH II. OF PRUSSIA, VOL. XVIII. (OF XXI.)THOMAS CARLYLEOn his return Greybrush found the passage littered with moss and leaves, while porcine snoring resounded throughout the earth.
LIVES OF THE FUR FOLKM. D. HAVILANDHe was not carnivorous, or a beast of prey, and ugly as he was, certainly looked better alive than he would as a porcine corpse.
WOODCRAFT AND CAMPINGGEORGE WASHINGTON SEARS (NESSMUK)Porcine, por′sīn, adj. pertaining to or resembling swine: swinish.
CHAMBERS'S TWENTIETH CENTURY DICTIONARY (PART 3 OF 4: N-R)VARIOUSAfter all, were his individual opinions and doubts expressed in a manner forceful enough to diversify him from a porcine apathy?
CYTHEREAJOSEPH HERGESHEIMERIt seems to be an established fact, that in this portion of the world the porcine genus are all hogs.
NORTH AMERICA, VOLUME II (OF 2)ANTHONY TROLLOPEI have never heard a seal utter any vocal sounds but a porcine grunt, a plaintive moan, and a pitiful whine.
SEA MONSTERS UNMASKED AND SEA FABLES EXPLAINEDHENRY LEEWORDS RELATED TO PORCINE
- beefy
- big
- blimp
- bovine
- brawny
- broad
- bulging
- bulky
- bull
- burly
- butterball
- chunky
- corpulent
- distended
- dumpy
- elephantine
- fleshy
- gargantuan
- gross
- heavy
- heavyset
- hefty
- husky
- inflated
- jelly-belly
- lard
- large
- meaty
- obese
- oversize
- paunchy
- plump
- plumpish
- ponderous
- porcine
- portly
- potbellied
- pudgy
- roly-poly
- rotund
- solid
- stout
- swollen
- thickset
- weighty
- well-fed
- whalelike
- beefy
- big
- blimp
- bovine
- brawny
- broad
- bulging
- bulky
- bull
- burly
- butterball
- chunky
- corpulent
- distended
- dumpy
- elephantine
- fleshy
- gargantuan
- gross
- heavy
- heavyset
- hefty
- husky
- inflated
- jelly-belly
- lard
- large
- meaty
- obese
- oversize
- paunchy
- plump
- plumpish
- ponderous
- porcine
- portly
- potbellied
- pudgy
- roly-poly
- rotund
- solid
- stout
- swollen
- thickset
- weighty
- whalelike
- abundant
- ample
- awkward
- beefy
- big
- built
- bulky
- burdensome
- chunky
- considerable
- copious
- corpulent
- cumbersome
- cumbrous
- elephantine
- enceinte
- excessive
- expectant
- fat
- fleshy
- gravid
- gross
- hefty
- huge
- laden
- large
- lead-footed
- loaded
- lumbering
- massive
- obese
- oppressed
- overweight
- parturient
- ponderous
- porcine
- portly
- pregnant
- stout
- substantial
- top-heavy
- two-ton
- unmanageable
- unwieldy
- weighted
- weighty
- zaftig
- ample
- awkward
- beefy
- big
- built
- bulky
- burdensome
- chunky
- considerable
- corpulent
- cumbersome
- cumbrous
- elephantine
- enceinte
- excessive
- expectant
- fat
- fleshy
- gravid
- gross
- hefty
- huge
- laden
- large
- lead-footed
- loaded
- lumbering
- massive
- obese
- oppressed
- overweight
- parturient
- ponderous
- porcine
- portly
- pregnant
- stout
- substantial
- top-heavy
- two-ton
- unmanageable
- unwieldy
- weighted
- weighty
- zaftig
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