arietine
English
Adjective
arietine (comparative more arietine, superlative most arietine)
- (zoology, rare) Of, like, or pertaining to rams.
- 1871 June 1, “Morality in Fiction”, in The Literary World, page 8:
- The great public, who follow the bell-wether with trusting confidence, and with the greater eagerness if the scent of scandal comes from his direction, tumbled pell-mell through the gap in the fence discovered by their arietine leader, and the whole pasture resounded with ovine voices of dismay.
Related terms
Translations
of, like, or pertaining to rams
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References
- “arietine”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Latin
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