American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth
Edition - adj. Of or resembling swine or a pig: "a bald porcine
old man” ( Vladimir Nabokov). Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In zoology, resembling or related to swine; suilline: as,
porcine characters or affinities. - Swinish; hoggish; piggish:
applied to persons in derision or contempt. - adj. Of, or
pertaining to, the pig. - adj. Overweight to the extent of
resembling a pig; morbidly obese. GNU Webster's 1913 - adj. Of
or pertaining to swine; characteristic of the hog. - adj.
resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy - adj. relating
to or suggesting swine - adj. repellently fat - From the Latin
adjective porcinus, from the noun porcus ("pig"). (Wiktionary) -
Middle English, from Old French porcin, from Latin porcīnus,
from porcus, pig; see porko- in Indo-European roots. (American
Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
“In August, Philippine authorities sent samples from the dead
pigs to the Plum Island Animal Di