lupine

lupine

See also: Lupine and łupinę

English

Etymology 1

taxidermy wolf (Canis lupus lupus) in a lupine pose

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈluː.paɪn/

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• Hyphenation: lu‧pine
• Rhymes: -uːpaɪn

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: gluttonous, insatiable, rapacious; see also Thesaurus:voracious

Translations

wolf-like

Arabic: ذِئْبِيّ‎ (ḏiʾbiyy) Belarusian: во́ўчы (vóŭčy) Bulgarian: въ́лчи (vǎ́lči) Chinese: Mandarin: 狼的 (zh) (láng de) Czech: vlčí (cs) Finnish: susimainen French: lupin (fr) German: wölfisch, Wolfen- (de), Wolfs- (de) Indonesian: serigala (id) Italian: lupino (it) Japanese: オオカミ (ja) (オオカミの, ōkami no) Korean: 이리의 (ko) (iri-ui) Macedonian: волчешки (volčeški), волчји (volčji) Malay: serigala (ms) Occitan: lupin, alobatit, alobit Polish: wilczy (pl) Romanian: lupesc (ro) Russian: во́лчий (ru) (vólčij) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ву̏чјӣ Roman: vȕčjī (sh) Slovak: vlčí Slovene: volčji Spanish: lobuno (es) Ukrainian: во́вчий (vóvčyj)

having the characteristics of a wolf

Belarusian: во́ўчы (vóŭčy) Bulgarian: въ́лчи (vǎ́lči) Esperanto: lupa (eo) Finnish: susimainen French: lupin (fr) German: wölfisch Occitan: lupin, alobatit Russian: во́лчий (ru) (vólčij) Spanish: lobuno (es) Ukrainian: во́вчий (vóvčyj)

ravenous

Finnish: ahnas (fi) French: vorace (fr) German: mit Bärenhunger, unersättlich (de) Occitan: alobatit, voraç

See also

• canine
• vulpine

Etymology 2

See lupin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈluː.pɪn/

  • Audio (UK)

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Noun

a lupine (Lupinus polyphyllus

lupine (plural lupines)

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

Translations

lupin — see lupin

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

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Latin

Noun

lupīne

1. vocative singular of lupīnus