boar

noun (plural same or boars)

• 1 (also wild boar) a tusked Eurasian wild pig from which domestic pigs are descended, exterminated in Britain in the 17th century.

  • Sus scrofa, family Suidae
• [mass noun] the flesh of the wild boar as food.

• 2an uncastrated domestic male pig.

• 3the full-grown male of certain other animals, especially a badger, guinea pig, or hedgehog.