adj
Meaning 1
Wolfish (all senses); wolflike.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
lupine
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈluː.paɪn/
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adj
Meaning 2
Ravenous.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: gluttonous, insatiable, rapacious, cormorant, edacious, esurient, gutfoundered, hungry as a hog, lupine, pantagruelian, ravening, ravenous, voracious
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
North American English form of lupin (any plant of the genus Lupinus; an edible legume seed of one of these plants).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: English, North-American, alt-of
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adjective
Meaning 4
of or relating to or characteristic of wolves
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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noun
Meaning 5
any plant of the genus Lupinus; bearing erect spikes of usually purplish-blue flowers
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: lupin
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: woody plant, ligneous plant
Narrower terms: white lupine, field lupine, wolf bean, Egyptian lupine, Lupinus albus, yellow lupine, Lupinus luteus, bluebonnet, buffalo clover, Texas bluebonnet, Lupinus subcarnosus, Lupinus texensis
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin lupīnus, from lupus (“wolf”) + -īnus (“pertaining to”). Doublet of lupin and piecewise doublet of wolven, Latin lupus being a cognate of wolf and -ine being a doublet of -en.
See lupin.
Across languages
Translations
49 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: ذِئْبِيّ (ḏiʔbiyy) — wolf-like
- Belarusian: во́ўчы (vówčy) — wolf-like
- Bulgarian: въ́лчи (vǎ́lči) — wolf-like
- Chinese Mandarin: 狼的 (láng de) — wolf-like
- Czech: vlčí — wolf-like
- Finnish: susimainen — wolf-like
- French: lupin — wolf-like
- French: louvesque — wolf-like
- French: lupoïde — wolf-like
- German: wölfisch — wolf-like
- German: Wolfen- — wolf-like
- German: Wolfs- — wolf-like
- Indonesian: serigala — wolf-like
- Italian: lupino — wolf-like
- Japanese: オオカミ (ōkami no) — wolf-like
- Korean: 이리의 (iri-ui) — wolf-like
- Macedonian: волчешки (volčeški) — wolf-like
- Macedonian: волчји (volčji) — wolf-like
- Malay: serigala — wolf-like
- Occitan: lupin — wolf-like
- Occitan: alobatit — wolf-like
- Occitan: alobit — wolf-like
- Polish: wilczy — wolf-like
- Romanian: lupesc — wolf-like
- Russian: во́лчий (vólčij) — wolf-like
- Serbo-Croatian: ву̏чјӣ — wolf-like
- Serbo-Croatian: vȕčjī — wolf-like
- Slovak: vlčí — wolf-like
- Slovene: volčji — wolf-like
- Spanish: lobuno — wolf-like
- Ukrainian: во́вчий (vóvčyj) — wolf-like
- Belarusian: во́ўчы (vówčy) — having the characteristics of a wolf
- Bulgarian: въ́лчи (vǎ́lči) — having the characteristics of a wolf
- Esperanto: lupa — having the characteristics of a wolf
- Finnish: susimainen — having the characteristics of a wolf
- French: lupin — having the characteristics of a wolf
- French: louvesque — having the characteristics of a wolf
- German: wölfisch — having the characteristics of a wolf
- Occitan: lupin — having the characteristics of a wolf
- Occitan: alobatit — having the characteristics of a wolf
- Russian: во́лчий (vólčij) — having the characteristics of a wolf
- Spanish: lobuno — having the characteristics of a wolf
- Ukrainian: во́вчий (vóvčyj) — having the characteristics of a wolf
- Finnish: ahnas — ravenous
- French: vorace — ravenous
- German: mit Bärenhunger — ravenous
- German: unersättlich — ravenous
- Occitan: alobatit — ravenous
- Occitan: voraç — ravenous
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