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arietine

arietine adjective: of, like, or pertaining to rams.

Adjective

arietine (comparative more arietine, superlative most arietine)

  1. (rare) Of, like, or pertaining to rams.
    • 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.1871 June 1, “Morality in Fiction”, in The Literary World, page 8

Forms of arietine

comparativemore arietine
superlativemost arietine

Origin of arietine

From Latin arietīnus, from ariet(is) (“ram”) + -īnus, from oblique form of ariēs.

Questions about arietine

What does arietine mean?
Arietine means of, like, or pertaining to rams.
What part of speech is arietine?
Arietine is an adjective.

Words near arietine in the dictionary

  1. Arietian
  2. Arietians
  3. Arietid
  4. Arietids
  5. arietiform
  6. arietine
  7. arietitid
  8. arietitids
  9. arietta
  10. ariettas
  11. ariette

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