[Lexicog] lexical relation for boar - sow?

[Dr. Fritz Goerling]

They are specific terms/hyponyms of the generic term/hypernym "pig." 
My question is: What are the differences in usage between "pig", "hog" and "swine?"
I guess the superordinate term is "pig"  for animals of the pocrine family.

The collocations of the three words are different. One refers to chauvinist pigs, but
to roadhogs. Someone "hogs the limelight." Another "casts pearls before swine."

An interesting article:

Arran Stibbe
As Charming as a Pig:The Discursive Construction
of the Relationship Between Pigs and Humans

http://www.animalsandsociety.org/assets/library/521_s1144.pdf

Fritz Goerling

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Subject: [Lexicog] lexical relation for boar - sow?


  
Is there a widely accepted lexical relation to describe male-female pairs of animals (e.g., boar and sow)? They seem to be (co)hyponyms of some sort; probably not antonyms. Specifics of a Generic (pig)?

Well, I'll make an end of showing my ignorance. ;-) Thanks for any guidance,

Paul



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