swine : Idioms & Phrases

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swine flu

  • noun an acute and highly contagious respiratory disease of swine caused by the orthomyxovirus thought to be the same virus that caused the 1918 influenza pandemic
    swine flu.
WordNet

Swine grass

  • (Bot.), knotgrass (Polygonum aviculare); so called because eaten by swine.
Webster 1913

swine influenza

  • noun an acute and highly contagious respiratory disease of swine caused by the orthomyxovirus thought to be the same virus that caused the 1918 influenza pandemic
    swine flu.
WordNet

Swine oat

  • (Bot.), a kind of oat sometimes grown for swine.
Webster 1913

Swine thistle

  • (Bot.), the sow thistle.
Webster 1913

Swine's cress

  • (Bot.), a species of cress of the genus Senebiera (S. Coronopus).
Webster 1913

Swine's head

  • a dolt; a blockhead. Obs. Chaucer.
Webster 1913

swine-pox

Swine"-pox` noun
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  1. (Med.) A variety of the chicken pox, with acuminated vesicles containing a watery fluid; the water pox. Pepys.
Webster 1913