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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.


asbestine
Of, pertaining to, or having the properties of, asbestos; not likely to burn, incombustible.
aselline: donkey, ass
Of or pertaining to a little ass, or to the two stars in Cancer called Aselli.
asinine: donkeys, asses
1. Similar to asses or donkeys.
2. Having the qualities by which the ass is characterized: obstinate, stupid, doltish, silly, etc.

Equidae is the scientific family term for horses, zebras, asses, and donkeys; a family of large terrestrial mammals (Perissodactyla) comprising seven species, now mostly domesticated.

All of them are herbivorous, grazing primarily on grasses, and living in small to large herds. The Presoaking’s horse from central Asia is the only existing wild horse known. The group also contains the gauge, an extinct wild zebra from southern Africa.

aspine: asps, vipers, snakes
Pertaining to asps or vipers; of or pertaining to an asp; snaky.

They are part of the Viperidae family, that includes vipers, rattlesnakes, and moccasins.

This family contains about 180 species of medium-sized highly venomous snakes (Serpentes) and are typically terrestrial, nocturnal, feed on small mammals, and a few species are arboreal or fossorial [adapted for digging or burrowing].

They reproduce via oviparous or ovoviviparous.

australopithecine (s), australopithecines (pl)
1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of these extinct humanlike primates.
2. Any of several extinct humanlike small-brained bipedal primates of the genus Australopithecus; existing from 1 to 4 million years ago.
avine: birds
1. Characteristic of birds.
2. The scientific family, Aves, consists of birds; class of feathered, bipedal, with forelimbs specialized as wings for flight, and without teeth.

Reproduction is oviparous, fertilization internal; eggs are yolked, amniotic, and with shells.

axine: stags
Of or pertaining to the group of stags of which the Spotted Axis is a type.
belluine; beasts
Pertaining to or characteristic of beasts; brutal.
betuline
Pertaining to the birch, or birch-rod.
bibovine
Designation of the group of bovine ruminants that includes the Oriental species, gaur, gayal, and banteng (forming the subgenus Bibos).
bisontine: bison
Similar to bisons; pertaining to or resembling the bison.
bivoltine: silkworms
1. Of certain silkworms: producing two broods 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.

bombycine: silkworms
1. Of the nature of silkworms.
2. Bombycidae is a family of broad robust moths (lepidoptera) from Asia that comprises about 100 species, including the domesticated silkworm that no longer exists in the wild; commercial silk is derived from the pupal cocoon.
bovine: oxen, cows, buffaloes
1. Of or pertaining to oxen.; resembling a ruminant mammal of the genus Bos; such as, an ox, cow, or buffalo.
2. A reference to the subfamily Bovinae, which includes cattle, buffalo, and kudus.
3. Applied figuratively to people or their behavior to mean "dull, stolid, stupid, oxlike; cowlike", and "listless".
bubaline
Similar to antelopes and hartebeests; formerly grouped in a sub-family Bubalinae or buffaloes of the genus Bubalus.

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