ferine
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ferine
- /ˈfɪəɹaɪn/
Where it comes from
From Latin ferīnus, from fera (“wild animal”). The zoological sense was coined by William Whewell in 1840.
adjective more ferine · most ferine
- Pertaining to wild, menacing animals; feral. 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) […]
- Belonging to the proposed taxon of bats, carnivorans, and insectivorans.
noun ferines
- A member of the proposed taxon of bats, carnivorans, and insectivorans.
