Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Resembling a duck; duck-like; specifically, of or pertaining to the Anatinæ or to the Anatidæ.
Wiktionary
- adj. Being of the family Anatidae, comprising the swans, geese, and ducks.
- adj. Pertaining to or resembling a duck; ducklike.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to the ducks; ducklike.
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
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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 7762 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...
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