Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Resembling a duck; duck-like; specifically, of or pertaining to the Anatinæ or to the Anatidæ.
Wiktionary
- adj. zoology Being of the family Anatidae, comprising the swans, geese, and ducks.
- adj. Pertaining to or resembling a duck; ducklike.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the ducks; ducklike.
Etymologies
- From Latin anatīnus, from anas, anatis ("a duck") + -inus ("-ine"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Sometimes called bay ducks, pochards – the tribe Aythyini – are one of four clades that together make up Anatinae, the true duck group (the other anatine clades are Malacorhynchini [pink-eared ducks], Anatini [surface-feeding ducks] and Mergini [seaducks]).”
“In Livezey's (1996) review of the tadornine-anatine divergence, 12 of the 13 studies he cited regarded Malacorhynchus as an anatine: the only one that supported its inclusion within Tadorninae was Livezey (1986)!”
“For the record, in his later studies he concluded that Malacorhynchus is an anatine after all.”
“They do exhibit the anatine type of sternal keel though.”
“We stayed in Friday night and Saturday morning (of course), spent Saturday afternoon wandering around Skipton and laughing at the ducks who were lined up along the canalside like a anatine version of The Usual Suspects.”
“W cygnine swan W anatine duck 1862-1893 dacelonine kingfisher W OOsW didine dodo 1885 OW avine bird 1881 OW falconine falcon OW buteonine buzzard fringilline finch 1874 -”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘anatine’.
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Rare Words - A
Not just rare words, but thousands of RARE WORDS WITH DEFINITIONS.
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http://phrontistery.i...aba, abacinate, abactor, abaculus, abaft, abampere, abapical, abarticular, abasement, abasia, abask, abatis and 1214 more...
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birds
birds with singular names from
at least 9 English dictionariesaasvogel, aberdevine, accentor, accipiter, aepyornis, agami, albatross, alcatras, alcid, alcidine, amadavat, amokura and 1056 more...
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phrontistery - a
from phrontistery.info
axilla, avalement, argil, argent, argand, arete, aretaics, areometer, areology, arenoid, arenaceous, arefy and 1214 more...
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Animal Descriptors
Do any of your friends eat like a pig? Sly like a fox? Fast as a cheetah? Maybe these words describe them better
erinaceous, alaudine, phocine, porcine, accipritine, acarine, alopecoid, anatine, anguine, anopheline, apian, arietine and 80 more...
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Flightful Forays
trips from El Nido
vireo, tanager, scaup, lark, killdear, falcon, cormorant, becard, avocet, accipiter, peregrine, remex and 135 more...
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Beastly adjectives
How would you describe your brother-in-law? Is he a tad bovine? Maybe there is something lacertilian about him? Or his business practices seem a little percesocine to you.
dasyproctine, tolypeutine, asinine, feline, canine, eusuchian, simian, musteline, cervine, caprine, percesocine, hirudine and 227 more...
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Animal-ine
feline, leonine, vulpine, canine, ranine, elephantine, serpentine, cervine, ovine, porcine, aquinine, asinine and 171 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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Amusing words
interesting words
bonce, furcate, tapioca, tillage, desalinate, garish, litmus, roadhog, azoic, haberdasher, imbroglio, polliwog and 802 more...
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Australian
words not found in other
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scrabbleabdul, abdulled, abdulling, abi, abiu, ablactate, absinthial, absinthian, absoluter, acalypha, acanthodian, acaroids and 5128 more...
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Things Avian
Wordies relating to birdies. :-)
calidrid, corvid, avian, avifauna, beak, brood, aerie, altricial, albumen, winged, wattle, covey and 217 more...
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Just ducky
bufflehead, merganser, canvasback, muscovy, smew, pochard, shoveler, goosander, teal, seaduck, sheldrake, mallard and 66 more...
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sethbook's list
collapsitarian, disasterist, whoopla, frenzification, americanism, amurica, uhmurican, philaphobe, loverbuggery, egged, egg, kashnips and 13 more...
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Quodlibets' List
psithurism, bafflegab, tatterdemalion, amaranthine, incarnadine, petrichor, tintinnabulation, gallimaufry, galimatias, sussurus, tetrapyloctomy, rhapsodic and 60 more...
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Strictly for the Birds
Bird names and other bird-related words.
starling, eagle, sparrow, owl, coot, vulture, hawk, buzzard, duck, swan, chicken, turkey and 25 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for anatine.
Telofy Watch this video for further information. Aug 10, 2009
sionnach Yes, but "Fuliguline Skywalker" just doesn't have the same ring to it! Aug 10, 2009
sonofgroucho To do with ducks. Apparently fuliguline means the same. Feb 4, 2008