Boar (disambiguation)
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Animals

  • Wild boar
  • Adult male domestic pig
    Domestic pig
    The domestic pig is a domesticated animal that traces its ancestry to the wild boar, and is considered a subspecies of the wild boar or a distinct species in its own right. It is likely the wild boar was domesticated as early as 13,000 BC in the Tigris River basin...

  • Adult male of several other species; see List of animal names
  • Iron Age pig
    Iron Age Pig
    The Iron Age pig is a hybrid between a wild boar and a domestic pig meant to recreate the type of pig represented by prehistoric art works of the Iron Age. The project started in the early 1980s by crossing a male wild boar with a Tamworth sow to produce an animal that looks like the pig from long...

    , a pseudo-primitive breed of boar
  • Razorback
    Razorback
    Razorback is an Americanism, loosely applied to any type of feral pig or wild boar in North America. The term has also appeared in Australia, to describe said animals in that country.-Introduction to the Americas:...

    , hybrid boar in North America

Other

  • Boar spear
    Boar spear
    A boar spear is a spear used for boar hunting. It is relatively short and heavy and has two "lugs" or "wings" on the spearsocket behind the blade, which act as a barrier to prevent an injured and furious boar from working its way up the shaft of the spear to attack the hunter.The boar spear also...

    , a type of spear widely used in Germany and Scandinavia during the Roman era
  • Boar the Fighter, a fictional character in the Redwall series by Brian Jacques
  • Boar, animal representation of Hai () in the zodiac; see Pig (zodiac)
    Pig (zodiac)
    The Pig , is the last of the 12 animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac. The Year of the Pig is associated with the earthly branch Hai .In Chinese culture, the pig is associated with fertility and virility...

  • The Boar, a newspaper
  • Boars in heraldry
    Boars in heraldry
    The wild boar and a boar's head are common charges in heraldry. A complete beast may represent what are seen as the positive qualities of the boar, namely courage and fierceness in battle; a boar's head may represent hospitality , or it may symbolize that the bearer of the arms is a noted...

  • BOAR (rocket)
    BOAR (rocket)
    The Bombardment Aircraft Rocket, also known as BOAR, the Bureau of Ordnance Aircraft Rocket, and officially as the 30.5-Inch Rocket, Mark 1, Mod 0, was an unguided air-to-surface rocket developed by the United States Navy's Naval Ordnance Test Station during the 1950s...

    , the Bombardment Aircraft Rocket, an American nuclear weapon of the 1950s.
  • Bristle
    Bristle
    A bristle is a stiff hair or feather. Also used are synthetic materials such as nylon in items such as brooms and sweepers. Bristles are often used to make brushes for cleaning uses, as they are strongly abrasive; common examples include the toothbrush and toilet brush...

    , sometimes obtained from boars

See also

  • Boer
    Boer
    Boer is the Dutch and Afrikaans word for farmer, which came to denote the descendants of the Dutch-speaking settlers of the eastern Cape frontier in Southern Africa during the 18th century, as well as those who left the Cape Colony during the 19th century to settle in the Orange Free State,...

  • Boor (disambiguation)
  • Bore (disambiguation)
  • Dzik (disambiguation)
    Dzik (disambiguation)
    Dzik, a Polish-language word for a wild boar, is the name of an armored car AMZ Dzik.It can also refer to:* Three submarines of the Polish Navy:** ORP Dzik, British U class submarine serving between 1942 and 1946...

  • Pig (disambiguation)
    Pig (disambiguation)
    Pigs are animals of the genus SusPig may also refer to:-Animals:*Domestic pig, Sus scrofa domestica or Sus domestica**Wild Pig, or Eurasian Wild Boar, Sus scrofa, the species from which the domestic pig was bred...

  • White boar
    White boar
    The White Boar was the personal device or badge of the English King Richard III of England , and is an early instance of the use of boars in heraldry....

    (disambiguation)
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