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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? Answers here
I’m ashamed to say I only knew vulpine …….. psittacine [parrot] – very odd ……..
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.
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:-))))
Well I should have known…wordpress only!! If you know of any other please, please let me know!!
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 !