Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Resembling a pard; spotted like a pard: as, the pardine genet, Genetta pardina, of western Africa.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Spotted like a pard.
- adjective (Zoöl.) a species of lynx (
Felis pardina ) inhabiting Southern Europe. Its color is rufous, spotted with black.
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- adjective rare Pertaining to or resembling a
leopard .
Etymologies
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From pard + -ine.
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Examples
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I went dancing instead, and pursued the peccary with pardine limers.
The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980
ruzuzu commented on the word pardine
There was something about Turing patterns and leopard spots here.
February 23, 2011