wild boar

Questions about wild boar

What is another word for wild boar?

It depends which wild boar you mean. In the sense “Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come; introduced in United States”, the synonyms are boar, Sus scrofa. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of wild boar?

WordNet records no antonym for wild boar. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for wild boar come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of wild boar

• Full entry for wild boarAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for wild boarWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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