farrow
verb/ˈfærəʊ/
/ˈfærəʊ/
[intransitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they farrow | /ˈfærəʊ/ /ˈfærəʊ/ |
| he / she / it farrows | /ˈfærəʊz/ /ˈfærəʊz/ |
| past simple farrowed | /ˈfærəʊd/ /ˈfærəʊd/ |
| past participle farrowed | /ˈfærəʊd/ /ˈfærəʊd/ |
| -ing form farrowing | /ˈfærəʊɪŋ/ /ˈfærəʊɪŋ/ |
- (of a female pig) to give birthTopics Animalsc2Word OriginOld English fearh, færh ‘young pig’, of West Germanic origin, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek porkos and Latin porcus ‘pig’.
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