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ferine

/ˈfɪəɹaɪn/

adjective 2
noun 1
forms 3

adjective2

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(no longer used) Pertaining to wild, menacing animals; feral.
- the season of rutting (an uncouth phrase, by which the vulgar denote that gentle dalliance, which in the well-wooded forest of Hampshire, passes between lovers of the ferine kind) […] — 1749
(no longer used) Belonging to the proposed taxon of bats, carnivorans, and insectivorans.

noun1

(no longer used) A member of the proposed taxon of bats, carnivorans, and insectivorans.

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