Library / English Dictionary

BOAR

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An uncastrated male hog

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("boar" is a kind of...):

swine (stout-bodied short-legged omnivorous animals)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come; introduced in United States

Synonyms:

boar; Sus scrofa; wild boar

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("boar" is a kind of...):

swine (stout-bodied short-legged omnivorous animals)

Meronyms (parts of "boar"):

tusk (a long pointed tooth specialized for fighting or digging; especially in an elephant or walrus or hog)

Holonyms ("boar" is a member of...):

genus Sus; Sus (type genus of the Suidae)

Credits

 Context examples: 

No clang of bugle rose from their stern ranks, but in the centre waved the leopards of England, on the right the ensign of their Company with the roses of Loring, and on the left, over three score of Welsh bowmen, there floated the red banner of Merlin with the boars'-heads of the Buttesthorns.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The boar, however, had not quite hidden himself, for his ears stuck out of the bush; and when he shook one of them a little, the cat, seeing something move, and thinking it was a mouse, sprang upon it, and bit and scratched it, so that the boar jumped up and grunted, and ran away, roaring out, Look up in the tree, there sits the one who is to blame.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Here were the gold mullets of the Pakingtons, the sable and ermine of the Mackworths, the scarlet bars of the Wakes, the gold and blue of the Grosvenors, the cinque-foils of the Cliftons, the annulets of the Musgraves, the silver pinions of the Beauchamps, the crosses of the Molineaux, the bloody chevron of the Woodhouses, the red and silver of the Worsleys, the swords of the Clarks, the boars'-heads of the Lucies, the crescents of the Boyntons, and the wolf and dagger of the Lipscombs.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He did not take the huntsmen with him into the forest, and they were well pleased that he did not, for the wild boar had several times received them in such a manner that they had no inclination to lie in wait for him.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

When the boar perceived the tailor, it ran on him with foaming mouth and whetted tusks, and was about to throw him to the ground, but the hero fled and sprang into a chapel which was near and up to the window at once, and in one bound out again.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)