Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to the genus Didus or family Dididœ; being or resembling a dodo.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of, or pertaining to dodos
- adj. figuratively Extinct.
- adj. figuratively Obsolete. Old-fashioned. Out of date. No longer in common use or practice.
- adj. figuratively Very old or having very old-fashioned views and unwilling to change or adapt.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Zoöl.) Like or pertaining to the genus Didus, or the dodo.
Examples
“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 -”
“What of didine, megacerine, and other adjectives for animals prehistoric, extinct, or both?”
“Contents chapter 1: the customs officer’s wife chapter 2: “pardon me, old man ... ‘chapter 3: airaud’s footprints chapter 4: official proceedings chapter 5: the confession chapter 6: the two englishwomen of versailles chapter 7: ask the chief superintendent chapter 8: a meal of baked potatoes chapter 9: the interrogation chapter 10: detective didine chapter 11: the doctor’s housekeeper”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘didine’.
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phrontistery - d
from phrontistery.info
dysteleology, dyslogistic, dystectic, dysphoria, dysphonia, dystopia, dysphemism, dystocia, dyslogia, dysaesthesia, dyschromatopic, dysbulia and 624 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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Favorites
machiavellian, mercurial, deus ex machina, synecdoche, litotes, phallic, freudian, metonymy, chrestomathy, falsifiable, gestalt, truthiness and 211 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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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 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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Animals
porcine, phocine, leporine, hircine, ursine, zoonic, volucrine, vermicular, taurine, strigine, soricine, ranine and 20 more...
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