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English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin lup?nus, from lupus (“wolf”). Piecewise doublet of wolven, Latin lupus being a cognate of wolf and -ine being a doublet of -en.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lu?.pa?n/
• Hyphenation: lu?pine
• Rhymes: -u?pa?n

Adjective

lupine (comparative more lupine, superlative most lupine)

1. Of, or pertaining to, the wolf.
2. Wolflike; wolfish.
3. Having the characteristics of a wolf.
4. Ravenous.

Synonyms

• (ravenous): ferocious, gluttonous, insatiable, rapacious, voracious

Translations

See also

• canine
• vulpine

Etymology 2

See lupin

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lu?.p?n/

Noun

lupine (plural lupines)

1. US form of lupin (any plant of the genus Lupinus; an edible legume seed of one of these plants).

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Further reading

• Lupinus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Lupinus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Lupinus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• Lupien, line up, line-up, lineup, pinule, unpile, up line, up-line, upline

Latin

Noun

lup?ne

1. vocative singular of lup?nus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French taxonomie. Surface analysis taxo- +? -nomy.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tæk?s?n?mi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /tæk?s??n?mi/
• Rhymes: -?n?mi

Noun

taxonomy (countable and uncountable, plural taxonomies)

1. The science or the technique used to make a classification.
2. A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.
3. (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

Synonyms

• taxonomics
• (science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms): alpha taxonomy

Coordinate terms

• nomenclature
• ontology

Derived terms

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