ferine

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A member of the proposed taxon of bats, carnivorans, and insectivorans. obsolete
形容词 adj.
  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

词形变化

more ferine comparative most ferine superlative ferines plural

词源

词源 1
From Latin ferīnus, from fera (“wild animal”). The zoological sense was coined by William Whewell in 1840.
词源 2
From Latin ferīnus, from fera (“wild animal”). The zoological sense was coined by William Whewell in 1840.
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