suine

English

Noun

suine (countable and uncountable, plural suines)

  1. (zoology) (strictly) An even-toed ungulate belonging to the taxonomic subfamily Suinae, which is comprised of modern pigs (genus Sus) and their close relatives, both living and extinct.
    • 1983, The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, volume 7, page 574:
      Primitive suines appeared in the Eocene.
  2. (zoology) (loosely) An even-toed ungulate belonging to the suborder Suina.
  3. (rare, uncountable) A buttery substitute usually made of suet or lard.

Anagrams

Italian

Adjective

suine

  1. feminine plural of suino

Latin

Adjective

suīne

  1. vocative masculine singular of suīnus
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