wild boar

wild boar
a wild Old World swine, Sus scrofa, from which most of the domestic hogs are believed to be derived.
[1475-85]

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also called  Wild Pig,  

      any of the wild members of the pig species Sus scrofa (family Suidae, order Artiodactyla), the ancestors of domestic pigs. See boar.

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