boar : Idioms & Phrases


boar thistle

  • noun European thistle with rather large heads and prickly leaves; extensively naturalized as a weed in the United States
    Cirsium vulgare; spear thistle; bull thistle; Cirsium lanceolatum.
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Wild boar

  • noun Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come; introduced in United States
    boar; Sus scrofa.
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  • (Zoöl.), the European wild hog (Sus scrofa), from which the common domesticated swine is descended.
Webster 1913