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(Greek > Latin: a suffix that is used to form hundreds of words that mean "similar to", "resembling", "like", "characterized by", or "of the nature of")

This element is also utilized to form abstract nouns; feminine common nouns; and it is used in chemistry to form names of alkaloids and bases or names of elements.


sylvicoline, sylvine: woods, forests
Characteristic of those that inhabit woods or forests; such as, birds, plants, animals, etc.
tagrine: tigers
A reference to tigers.
Tangerine
1. Of or pertaining to, or native of Tangier, a seaport in Morocco, on the Strait of Gibraltar.
2. A small flattened deep-colored variety of orange originally from Tangier, “Citrus nobilis” variety, “Tangeriana”.
tapirine: tapirs
A reference to tapirs.
taurine: bull
1. Of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resembling a bull; or a bovine.
2. Also referring to bull-fighting.
3. A colorless crystalline substance formed by the hydrolysis of taurocholic acid and found in the fluids of the muscles and lungs of many animals.
4. A reference to the zodiacal sign Taurus.
5. Etymology: from Greek tauros, "bull" (from its having been obtained first from ox bile).
tetraonine: grouse
A reference to grouse and ptarmigans.
textrine: weaving
Of or pertaining to weaving.
tigrine: tiger
Of, pertaining to, or resembling a tiger, especially in marking or coloring.
tolypeutine: armadillos
A reference to armadillos.
tringine: sandpipers
A reference to sandpipers.
turdine: thrushes, bluebirds, robins
A reference to thrushes; such as, bluebirds and robins.
univoltine: silkworms
1. Of certain silkworms: producing one brood per annum.
2. There are multivoltines.

Some species produce one, two, three, four, six, or even eight broods per annum, and in the commercial world are distinguished as, univoltines, bivoltins, trivoltins, quadrivoltins, etc.

ursine: bear, bears
Of the nature of, resembling or having the essential characteristics of, a bear; consisting of bears.
uterine
1. Having the same mother, but not the same father.
2. A reference to, or belonging to, the uterus.
3. Situated in, or connected with, the womb.
vaccine: cows, cow pox
1. A suspension of deactivated, or killed microorganisms, (bacteria, viruses, or rickettsiae), or of antigenic proteins derived from them, administered for the prevention, amelioration, or treatment of infectious diseases.
2. Etymology: derived from, pertaining to, or relating to, cows. From Latin vaccinus "pertaining to cows", from vacca, "cow" (from the use of cowpox virus inoculation for immunization against smallpox).

Appearing in, characteristic of, the disease of cow-pox.

A material which can either be live, but weakened forms of pathogens; such as, bacteria or viruses, killed or inactivated forms of these pathogens; or purified material; such as, proteins.


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