ferine

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Pronunciation

/ˈfɪəɹaɪn/

Definition of ferine

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

(archaic)Pertaining to wild, menacing animals; feral.

“the season of rutting (an uncouth phrase, by which the vulgar denote that gentle dalliance, which in the well-wooded forest of Hampshire, passes between lovers of the ferine kind) […]”

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adj

(archaic)Pertaining to wild, menacing animals; feral.

“the season of rutting (an uncouth phrase, by which the vulgar denote that gentle dalliance, which in the well-wooded forest of Hampshire, passes between lovers of the ferine kind) […]”
(obsolete)Belonging to the proposed taxon of bats, carnivorans, and insectivorans.

noun

(obsolete)A member of the proposed taxon of bats, carnivorans, and insectivorans.

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From Latin ferīnus, from fera (“wild animal”). The zoological sense was coined by William Whewell in 1840.

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