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pigroot

pigroot noun: an area of soil where pigs have turned up the ground with their snouts looking for worms, insects, and plant roots to eat.

Noun

pigroot (plural pigroots)

  1. An area of soil where pigs have turned up the ground with their snouts looking for worms, insects, and plant roots to eat.
  2. Any plant of the genus Sisyrinchium.
  3. An instance of pigrooting
    • Howie showed his objection to the early hour with a few pigroots—he impressed the television people but merely caused the sure-seated Maddie to laugh.2015, Fiona McCallum, Return to the Adelaide Hills, page 418

Verb

pigroot (third-person singular simple present pigroots, present participle pigrooting, simple past and past participle pigrooted)

  1. To lower the head, firmly plant the forelegs, and kick upwards with the hindlegs.
    • The great beast went round and round the yard pig-rooting and crow-hopping and I hung on for dear life.1933, Frank Clune, Try Anything Once, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 31
    • Eventually we saddled the team; then Slippery, with a snort, started pig-rooting and bolted amongst the trees, with the trackers hanging on to him.1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 13

pigroot meaning in Tamil

pigroot in Tamil

கொளுங்குவி

Forms of pigroot

Noun
pluralpigroots
Verb
third-person singular presentpigroots
present participlepigrooting
past participlepigrooted
pastpigrooted

Origin of pigroot

From pig + root.

Questions about pigroot

What does pigroot mean?
Pigroot means an area of soil where pigs have turned up the ground with their snouts looking for worms, insects, and plant roots to eat.
What is pigroot in Tamil?
Pigroot in Tamil is கொளுங்குவி. See Pigroot meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is pigroot?
Pigroot can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of pigroot?
The plural of pigroot is pigroots.

Words near pigroot in the dictionary

  1. pigpens
  2. pigpile
  3. pigpiles
  4. pigproof
  5. pigritude
  6. pigroot
  7. pigrooted
  8. pigrooting
  9. pigroots
  10. pigs
  11. pigs and bulls

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pigroot (page history and authors); pigroot (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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