No sheep here

Author Posted by gitwizard Post Date 23 September, 2009 Comments (5) Comments

 

 

snake

crow

deer goat 

 

 

fox

frog

owl

kangaroo

 

 

                                                                                                                      

 ratpigeonsquirreloyster

                                                                                                                                                                 

 

                                                                                                                                                               

parrot

humor-penguin-logic

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

        o·vine (vn)

              adj.      Of, relating to, or characteristic of sheep; sheeplike.

              n.         An ovine animal.

             [Late Latin ovnus, from Latin ovis, sheep;]

    Ref: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ovine

There has been a lot of  talk lately of mammals of an ovine persuasion.

This led me to think about the suffix ‘ine’, which is used to form hundreds of words.

We’re all familiar with the common usage of ‘masculine’, ‘feminine’, ‘feline’, ‘canine’ etc.

The pictures above depict animals that the following words pertain to:

Macropodine, Strigine, Vulpine, Hircine, Cervine, Psittacine, Ostracine, Spheniscine, Ranine, Elapine, Corvine, Pullastrine, Sciurine, and lastly Murine.

How many can you guess?

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5 Responses to “No sheep here”

  1. September 24th, 2009 at 08:34

    Daddy Papersurfer says:

    I’m ashamed to say I only knew vulpine …….. psittacine [parrot] – very odd ……..

  2. September 24th, 2009 at 08:47

    gitwizard says:

    I only knew vulpine too, but after I found the parrot one I remembered that there is a disease called ‘psittacosis’ (must have read it somewhere). Funds in BTW, only that amount per day.

  3. September 25th, 2009 at 19:59

    Jackie says:

    Wow are you kidding me? Yesterday I had to do math and now this. Obviously everyone besides DP really doesn’t understand that I am very numb!!

    Hey I love your friends Gravatar Grid. I wonder will it work on Blogger? I will have to go see. i was just asking in the forum about maybe getting an option to change the FMB widget color for those of us who have backgrounds that make the orange look like Halloween.

    I hope this will work on Blogger and i can figure it out!! I am going over and book mark it!!

    I hope you have a great weekend!!
    Jackie:-))))

  4. September 25th, 2009 at 20:02

    Jackie says:

    Well I should have known…wordpress only!! If you know of any other please, please let me know!!

  5. September 25th, 2009 at 20:16

    gitwizard says:

    Sorry that widget doesn’t work on Blogger, I don’t understand enough tech to know why. I’m sure you could get a different colour FMB widget, Penfold has a rather distinctive custom FMB badge, I expect he wrote most of the code for FMB. Have a great photo-op weekend !

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