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boar

[ bawr, bohr ]

noun

  1. the uncastrated male swine.


adjective

  1. South Midland and Southern U.S. (of animals) male, especially full-grown:

    a boar cat.

boar

/ ɔː /

noun

  1. an uncastrated male pig
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of boar1

First recorded before 1000; Middle English boor, Old English ; cognate with Dutch beer, Old High German ê, from unattested West Germanic baira-, perhaps akin to Welsh baedd
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of boar1

Old English ; related to Old High German ŧ
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It affects cattle, sheep, pigs and, according to the government, "other cloven-hoofed animals such as wild boar, deer, llamas and alpacas".

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Canadian Mike Weir in 2004 featured elk, wild boar and Arctic char.

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A wild boar unknowingly ventures too close to the tigress, unaware of the imminent danger.

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Wild boar, like the lynx - and the local area's legally reintroduced beavers - were once a native species but were hunted to extinction about 700 years ago.

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Wild boar are a native species to Scotland, but were hunted to extinction about 700 years ago.

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