boar

«boar» in Mova's school dictionary: a wild pig with thick, bristly hair and sharp tusks… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a boar, boars)

meaning for a pupil

1) A boar, or wild boar, is a wild pig with thick, bristly hair and sharp tusks, living in forests in Europe, Asia and North Africa. tree →

2) A boar is also an adult male pig on a farm; the female is a sow. tree →

3) The male of some other animals, like the guinea pig and badger, is also called a boar. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons boars come up in woodland habitats and food webs; they dig up the ground with their snouts looking for roots, nuts, insects and worms. In history and stories, boar hunting was a royal sport, and a boar's head was served at feasts. In some parts of Europe wild boars come into towns looking for food.

examples

• The wild boar dug in the forest floor with its snout. tree →
• A boar has sharp tusks. tree →
• The farmer has one boar and ten sows. tree →
• Wild boar piglets have stripes on their fur. tree →
• Keep away from wild boars; they can be dangerous. tree →
• In the old story, the hero hunted a giant boar. tree →
• Wild boars live in forests across Europe. tree →

note

Plural «boars». Homophone traps: «boar» (pig), «bore» (dull, or to make a hole) and «boor» (a rude person). Baby boars are «piglets»; striped wild boar piglets are sometimes called «humbugs» in the UK.

In the corpora

• Long before there were gardeners, robins followed wild boar rooting through the forest floor for exactly the same reason.
• With no hunting, farming or traffic, wolves, elk, boar, lynx and even brown bears came back.
• The boar out of the wood doth ravage it, that which moveth in the field feedeth on it.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «boar» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.