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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A wild pig (Sus scrofa) of Eurasia and northern Africa, having dark dense bristles and four tusks in the male. It is the ancestor of the domestic swine.
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- noun A wild
swine native to Europe and North Africa, scientific nameSus scrofa .
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- noun Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come; introduced in United States
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"As Germany's wild boar population has skyrocketed in recent years, so too has the number of animals contaminated by radioactivity left over from the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown. Government payments compensating hunters for lost income due to radioactive boar have quadrupled since 2007."
- Spiegel International Online
August 5, 2010