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Critter Qualities 17 words

May 21, 2008 By Orin Hargraves (MD) Vocabulary.com Contributor
I look for excuses to use these elegant Latinate adjectives that denote characteristics of animals

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  1. bovine
    any of various members of the genus Bos
  2. canine
    any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles
  3. caprine
    being or pertaining to or resembling a goat or goats
  4. cervine
    relating to or resembling deer
  5. corvine
    relating to or resembling a crow
  6. equine
    resembling a horse
  7. feline
    of or relating to cats
  8. leonine
    of or characteristic of or resembling a lion
  9. lupine
    any plant of the genus Lupinus; bearing erect spikes of usually purplish-blue flowers
  10. murine
    of or relating to or transmitted by a member of the family Muridae (rats and mice)
  11. ovine
    of or pertaining to or of the nature of or characteristic of a sheep or sheep
  12. piscine
    of or relating to fish
  13. porcine
    relating to or suggesting swine
  14. serpentine
    resembling a serpent in form
  15. taurine
    of or relating to or resembling a bull
  16. ursine
    of or relating to or similar to bears
  17. vulpine
    resembling or characteristic of a fox