Latin Animal Roots

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An itemization of Latin animal words that end with the letter sequence 'ine'.
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  1. aquiline
    curved down like an eagle's beak
  2. asinine
    devoid of intelligence
  3. bovine
    any of various wild or domestic cattle
  4. canine
    a dog, wolf, jackal, or other closely related mammal
  5. caprine
    being or pertaining to or resembling a goat or goats
  6. cervine
    relating to or resembling deer
  7. equine
    relating to or resembling a horse
  8. ermine
    mustelid of northern hemisphere in its white winter coat
  9. feline
    of or relating to cats
  10. feminine
    associated with women and not with men
  11. ferine
    wild and menacing
  12. kine
    domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age
    *origin Middle English
  13. leonine
    of or characteristic of or resembling a lion
  14. lupine
    of or relating to or characteristic of wolves
  15. masculine
    associated with men and not with women
  16. ovine
    of or pertaining to sheep
  17. piscine
    of or relating to fish
  18. porcine
    relating to pigs or swine
  19. porcupine
    a large, plant-eating, gnawing mammal with sharp spines
  20. sardine
    small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe
  21. serpentine
    resembling a snake in form
  22. swine
    stout-bodied short-legged omnivorous animals
  23. ursine
    of or relating to or similar to bears
  24. vulpine
    resembling or characteristic of a fox
  25. wolverine
    stocky shaggy-coated North American carnivorous mammal
    *origin unknown
Created on Thu Sep 26 14:24:52 EDT 2013 (updated Thu Sep 26 23:02:08 EDT 2013)

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