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ferine

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6 lettersPronunciation /ˈfɪəɹaɪn/Part of speech adjectiveSorted eefinrStarts with FEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. wild and menacing

Word origin

From Latin ferīnus, from fera (“wild animal”). The zoological sense was coined by William Whewell in 1840.

Used in a sentence

  • 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) […]

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