Here.
Amazing, a whole bunch of English words you’ve never even heard of before. These are adjectives describing certain animals, meaning: like a, similar to, in the way of or relating to [animal name].
Here are the a’s just to get you started:
Animal Adjective agouti dasyproctine (like an agouti) ant formicine/myrmecine (ant-like) anteater myrmecophagine (similar to an anteater) antelope antilopine (as an antelope) armadillo tolypeutine (relating to armadillos) asp aspine (in the way of an asp) ass asinine (like an ass) auk alcidine (about auks)
Most of you have probably only heard of a handful of those words, and you have probably used an even smaller number.
I have only heard of: asinine, acciptrine, taurine, feline, bovine, vaccine, canine, aquiline, elephantine, piscine, hominine, murine, passerine, porcine, serpentine, bufotenine. There are ~246 words there, and I got 16 of them. 7%.
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Asinine is one of my favourite words, now I know why!