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Ferine

//ˈfɪəɹaɪn// adj, noun

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Adjective

1
Pertaining to wild, menacing animals; feral. archaic
"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) […]"
2
Belonging to the proposed taxon of bats, carnivorans, and insectivorans. obsolete

Adjective

1
wild and menacing wordnet

Noun

1
A member of the proposed taxon of bats, carnivorans, and insectivorans. obsolete

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

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