Boar may refer to:
Animals
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Wild boar
The wild boar (''Sus scrofa''), also known as the wild swine, common wild pig, Eurasian wild pig, or simply wild pig, is a suid native to much of Eurasia and North Africa, and has been introduced to the Americas and Oceania. The species is ...
*Boar, adult male
domestic pig
The pig (''Sus domesticus''), often called swine, hog, or domestic pig when distinguishing from other members of the genus '' Sus'', is an omnivorous, domesticated, even-toed, hoofed mammal. It is variously considered a subspecies of ''Sus s ...
*Boar, adult male of several other species; see
List of animal names
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Iron Age pig
Iron () is a chemical element with symbol Fe (from la, ferrum) and atomic number 26. It is a metal that belongs to the first transition series and group 8 of the periodic table. It is, by mass, the most common element on Earth, right in fr ...
, a pseudo-primitive breed of boar
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Razorback
The feral pig is a domestic pig which has gone feral, meaning it lives in the wild. They are found mostly in the Americas and Australia. Razorback and wild hog are Americanisms applied to feral pigs or boar-pig hybrids.
Definition
A feral pi ...
, hybrid boar in North America
*Boar, adult male
guinea pig
The guinea pig or domestic guinea pig (''Cavia porcellus''), also known as the cavy or domestic cavy (), is a species of rodent belonging to the genus ''Cavia'' in the family Caviidae. Breeders tend to use the word ''cavy'' to describe the ani ...
Art, entertainment, and media
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''Boar'' (film), a 2016 Australian horror film
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''The Boar'' (newspaper), the student newspaper of the University of Warwick, England
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''The Boar'' (novel), a 1998 novel by Joe R. Lansdale
*Boar the Fighter, a fictional character in Brian Jacques' ''
Redwall
''Redwall'' is a series of children's fantasy novels by British writer Brian Jacques, published from 1986 to 2011. It is also the title of the first book of the series, published in 1986, as well as the name of the abbey featured in the book, ...
'' series
Greek mythology
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Calydonian Boar
The Calydonian boar hunt is one of the great heroic adventures in Greek legend. It occurred in the generation prior to that of the Trojan War, and stands alongside the other great heroic adventure of that generation, the voyage of the Argonauts, ...
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Erymanthian Boar
Weapons
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BOAR
The wild boar (''Sus scrofa''), also known as the wild swine, common wild pig, Eurasian wild pig, or simply wild pig, is a suid native to much of Eurasia and North Africa, and has been introduced to the Americas and Oceania. The species is no ...
, the Bombardment Aircraft Rocket, an American nuclear weapon of the 1950s
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Boar spear, a type of spear widely used in Germany and Scandinavia during the Roman era
Other
*Boar, animal representation of Hai (亥) in the zodiac; see
Pig (zodiac)
The Pig ( 豬) or sometimes translated as the Boar is the twelfth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in Chinese zodiac, in relation to the Chinese calendar and system of horology, and paralleling the system of ten Heavenly Stems and ...
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Boars in heraldry
See also
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Boer
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Boor (disambiguation)
Boor may refer to:
*boor, a peasant or uncultured person; one who lacks in education, knowledge, refinement and social graces
** bur, defined by the Rambam (Maimonides). A bur is a person having neither (ethical) Torah education nor virtues of ma ...
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Bore (disambiguation)
Bore or Bores often refer to:
*Boredom
* Drill
Relating to holes
* Boring (manufacturing), a machining process that enlarges a hole
** Bore (engine), the diameter of a cylinder in a piston engine or a steam locomotive
** Bore (wind instruments), ...
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Dzik (disambiguation)
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Hog (disambiguation)
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Pig (disambiguation)
A pig is a mammal of the genus ''Sus''.
Pig, PIG, Pigs or PIGS may also refer to:
Animals
* Domestic pig, ''Sus scrofa domestica'' or ''Sus domestica''
* Wild boar (wild pig or Eurasian wild boar), ''Sus scrofa'', the species from which the dome ...
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Swine (disambiguation)
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