suidian

noun

1. Synonym of suid.

   “If [Georges] Cuvier’s orders are placed in one, then the herbivora will contain the suborders proboscidians (elephants), tapiridians, having long noses, but not prehensile or only very slightly so, as in the rhinoceros and tapir; the suidians, having long but not at all prehensile snouts, as the hog and the hippopotamus; […]”

   “Abundant remains of continental vertebrates, such as elephants, rhinoceros, hippopotami and suidians (Pleistocene).”

   “Fasciola spp. are known to infect a wide variety of mammals (definitive hosts), including ruminants, suidians, primates, elephants, hippopotami, lagomorphs and rodents (Mas-Coma et al., 2009; Menard et al., 2000), some being more permissive than others.”

adj

1. Synonym of suid.

   “The melon would strike the porker in the ribs or on the head, producing various suidian squeals of pain and frustration.”

   “In a suidian incarnation (S[ans]k[rit] Varāha), Viṣnu rushes to rescue the earth from demons (Varāha Purāna I, 114.5-13; cf. Yt. 10.70 where a sharp-tusked Vereθragna rushes before Mithra too).”

   “Implicit evidence that stridor was not in fact regarded as the noise of a pig is provided by Cicero (Tusc. V 116: “ne stridorem quidem serrae […] aut grunditum […] suis [scil. audiunt surdi]”), where the stridor of a saw is explicitly distinguished from the grunditus of a pig: had stridor been considered a typically suidian noise, Cicero would simply have written “ne stridorem quidem serrae aut suis”.”