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‘When There’s Trauma In The Home, There Is Drama In The Classroom’

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12 animal adjectives to bolster your vocabulary
by Judith B Herman

In eighth grade, when I read that Julius Caesar had an aquiline nose, I mistakenly thought it had something to do with water. But aquiline is from Latin aquila, meaning eagle, not aqua, water. He had a curved, beaklike nose, not a runny one.

You know some other animal adjectives ending in -ine: feline (catlike), canine (doggy), and bovine (cow like). How many more are there? A herd, a flock, a whole bunch. Here’s a dozen.

1. ANGUINE
Joseph Sheridan Le Faun managed to use the erudite term in The Tenants of Malory. “Her beautiful eyebrows wore that anguine curve, which is the only approach to a scowl which painters accord to angels.” The word means snakelike, from Latin anguis, snake.

2. BUTEONINE
Here’s a perfect description of a hostile-take-over artist: buteonine, resembling a buzzard (from Latin būteōn-em, hawk or buzzard).

3. DELPHINE
Delphine is an obsolete adjective referring to the dolphin (from Old French dauphin, from Provençal dalfin, from Latin delphinus, from Greek delphin).

4. DIDELPHINE
Didelphine does not refer to a double dolphin, but a double uterus. It’s a variant of