Following on a thread I started last year to list names of visual patterns:
What are all the animal-specific adjectives? Here are the ones I know:
Bear: ursine
Pig: porcine
Horse: equine
Cow: bovine
Fish: piscine
Goat: caprine
Dog: canine
Cat: feline
Bird: avian (this one’s odd, in that it doesn’t fit the “*ine” pattern)
What else is there?
Sheep: ovine
Wolf: Lupine
Sheep: Ovine
Deer: Cervine
Those are the others I know without looking it up. Fish and bird are odd ones, because they’re referring to huge segments of an animal kingdom, whereas the mammal ones are really specific to a species or genus.
I had heard of the wolf and sheep adjectives before (but forgot). The deer one is completely new to me; thanks for posting.
Eagle: aquiline
Crow: corvine
Peacock: pavonine
Dove: columbine
Fox: vulpine
Snake: serpentine
Lion: leonine
Mouse: murine
Goat: caprine
Goose: anserine
Wasp: vesperine
Asinine: Like a donkey.
Cancroid, Cancrine: Both mean crablike.
Cephalopodan: Like a squid or octopus.
Chicken: galline
Bees: Apian
So is this one. Whale or dolphin is cetacean.
I’m a fan of broader categories:
Adapted to digging: fossorial
Having hooves: ungulate
Saurian - depending on context could be dinosaur, lizard, or crocodile
Rabbit - Leporine
Antelope: Alcelaphine
Blackbird or Robin: Turdine (seems a bit rude)
Calf: Vituline
Dolphine: Delphine
Duck: Anatine
Frog: Ranine
Kangaroo: Macropodine
Mite: Acarine
Mongoose: Viverrine
Otter: Lutrine
Owl: Strigine
Porcupine: Hystricine
Rabbit: Leporine
Rhino: Ceratorhine
Sea-horse: Hippocampine
Seal: Phocine
Shrew: Soricine
Snake: Colubrine
Squirrel: Sciurine
Spider: Arachnidan
Swan: Cygnine
Zebra: Zebrine
And some rather obvious ones, not based on a different Latin root:
Coral: Coralline
Elephant: Elephantine
Lemure: Lemurine
Owl: Owlish
And of course:
Horndog: Libertine
I laughed.
It’s one of the actual meanings of the word, even though the other is more common.
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On that note; Giraffe: Giraffine
Musteline: Badger (also covers polecats, weasels, stoats, skunks, ferrets, otters… Pretty all purpose!)
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Stork - ciconine
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