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Pig (disambiguation)

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A pig is a mammal of the genus Sus.

Pig, PIG, Pigs or PIGS may also refer to:

Animals

  • Wild boar (wild pig or Eurasian wild boar), Sus scrofa, the species from which the domestic pig was bred
  • Sus, a genus within the pig family, including Sus scrofa and closely related southeast Asian species
  • Suinae, a pig subfamily, including Sus and other genera from Africa and southeast Asia
  • Suidae, a family of animals, including Suinae and other extinct Old World subfamilies
  • Suina, a suborder of mammals including Suidae, and the Tayssuidae (peccaries or "New World pigs")
  • Hell pigs or terminator pigs, the Entelodonts, a family of extinct mammals

Places

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

Games

Literature

Music

Albums and projects

Songs

Military

Science and technology

  • Apache Pig, a MapReduce programming tool used on Hadoop, language Pig Latin
  • Pig, another term for ingot
  • Pipeline inspection gauge, a form of pipeline maintenance used in pigging
  • Pig, a small sandbag used for flood control inside a building
  • PIGS (gene), a human gene
  • Distillation pig, a piece of glassware that allows fractions to be collected without breaking vacuum
  • Lead pig, a container made of lead shielding for storing and transporting radioactive materials
  • The pig (tool), a type of axe used in firefighting

Other uses

See also