lupine

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Part of the charm of the lupine is the continual stir of its plumes to airs not suspected otherwhere.

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  1. noun Any of numerous plants of the genus Lupinus in the pea family, having palmately compound leaves and variously colored flowers grouped in spikes or racemes.
  2. adjective Characteristic of or resembling a wolf.
  3. adjective Rapacious; ravenous.

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  • In one famous case where the family goats were grazing on lupine, which is full of toxin, both the kids of a pregnant goat were born with crooked limbs. —  Omni: May 1994
  • And somebody must have taught me the names of these flowers, lupine, larkspur, paintbrush, aster, wild iris...and to love them. —  F ;SF - vol 105 issue 01 - July 2003
  • He walked back toward the big hotel, leaving the road for the trees before the last curve, moving through the thinning vegetation, the wild rose, lupine, fireweed, and grasses, until he crossed over the moraine. —  F ;SF - vol 096 issue 06 - June 1999
  • One of them might even have looked like a lupine, if she squinted. —  A Taint in the Blood
  • He looked at me out of eyes the color of rain-washed lupine, eyes that studied my own. —  Jacqueline Carey - Kushiel 02 - Kushiel's Chosen
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  1. Middle English, from Old French lupin, from Latin lupīnum, from neuter of lupīnus, wolflike; see lupine2.
  2. French, from Latin lupīnus, from lupus, wolf; see wl̥kwo- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French lupin = Spanish Portuguese Italian lupino, from Latin lupinus, belonging to a wolf, from lupus, a wolf: see Lupus. Cf. lupine, n.
  2. = Dutch lupijn = German lupine, from French lupin = Spanish Italian lupino = Russian lupinŭ, from Latin lupinus, lupinum, a lupine, orig. masculine and neuter respectively of lupinus, belonging to a wolf: see lupine, a. The reason of the name is unknown.
 

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