-ine adjectives and animals

Factual Questions
1

I know that…

canine = dogs

feline = cats

bovine = cows

ursine = bears

aquiline = eagles

equine = horses

porcine = pigs

and

There’s a similar “cean” list of words…

cetacean = whales and dolphins

piscean = fish

What other terms are there?

A link to a website listing these -ine words exhaustively would be great.

If not we may have to build one ourselves. Feel up to the challenge?

Moderators, I hope this is an interesting enough query for General Questions. Thanks!

2

Here’s a nice long list:

http://www.pubquizhelp.34sp.com/animals/adject.html

3

Here’s a good one.

4

Personally, I rather like hircine, meaning “goatlike.” There’s also ovine, meaning “sheeplike.”

5

You two have GOT to tell me the Google terms you used to find these sites!!!

6

Here’s one that deals with the science of taxonomy

7

And a more general search term would be collateral adjectives.
We had a thread on this about a month ago:

I managed to find this website:
http://www.angelfire.com/mo/dotila/trivia.html
which has a very extensive list. (Scroll down 3/4 of the page).
For example, anything related to sleeping would be soporific.

8

I’m sticking with “caprine”, or indeed “capricious”, until they pry my dictionary from my cold dead hands.

9

I do, however, recommend you avoid the “-ine” form meaning donkeylike, as its figurative use has completely eclipsed the literal meaning. :slight_smile:

10

Hircine, however, applies specifically to the odiferous character of the animal, and thus is useful for the Insult Concealed. Another such word (though not strictly an animal adjective) is jumentous, “smelling like a stable.”