Learn English – better term for a male pig [literal sense–the animal] than “boar”

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I googled male pig word and got results that said the word was boar. I thought, "That's odd; I thought that was the word for a wild pig!" So I visited Dictionary.com and sure enough, it has both meanings:

boar [bawr, bohr]
noun
1. the uncastrated male swine.
2. wild boar.
adjective
3. South Midland and Southern U.S. (of animals) male, especially full-grown: a boar cat.

So I was wondering, since there exists a term that only means female pig–sow, does such a word exist that only means male pig and nothing else? I'm looking for a unique term.

Best Answer

There are three terms used for this purpose. Here's a description of all three from Wikipedia.

  1. Boar or hog, male pig of breeding age.
  2. Barrow, male pig castrated before puberty.
  3. Stag, male pig castrated later in life (an older boar after castration).
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