different between pulicine vs fulicine

English

From Latin pulex (“flea”).

pulicine (not comparable)

Wikispecies

From New Latin Fulica (genus name).

fulicine (comparative more fulicine, superlative most fulicine)

(ornithology, rare) Of, or pertaining to coots.
- 1896, C. W. Andrews, NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE. VOL. III. (ON THE EXTINCT BIRDS OF THE CHATHAM ISLANDS. PART II.), page 265:
  The tarso-metatarsus is also typically Fulicine…

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