lupine

See also: Lupine and łupinę

English

Etymology 1

taxidermy wolf (Canis lupus lupus) in a lupine pose

Borrowed from Latin lupīnus, from lupus (“wolf”). Piecewise doublet of wolven, Latin lupus being a cognate of wolf and -ine being a doublet of -en.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈluː.paɪn/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: lu‧pine
• Rhymes: -uːpaɪn

Adjective

lupine (comparative more lupine, superlative most lupine)

1. Of, or pertaining to, the wolf.
2. Wolflike; wolfish.
3. Having the characteristics of a wolf.
4. Ravenous.

   Synonyms: gluttonous, insatiable, rapacious; see also Thesaurus:voracious

Translations

wolf-like

• Arabic: ذِئْبِيّ (ḏiʔbiyy)
• Belarusian: во́ўчы (vóŭčy)
• Bulgarian: въ́лчи (vǎ́lči)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 狼的 (zh) (láng de)

• Czech: vlčí (cs)
• Finnish: susimainen
• French: lupin (fr)
• German: wölfisch, Wolfen- (de), Wolfs- (de)
• Indonesian: serigala (id)
• Italian: lupino (it)
• Japanese: オオカミ (ja) (オオカミの, ōkami no)
• Korean: 이리의 (ko) (iri-ui)
• Macedonian: волчешки (volčeški), волчји (volčji)
• Malay: serigala (ms)
• Occitan: lupin, alobatit, alobit
• Polish: wilczy (pl)
• Romanian: lupesc (ro)
• Russian: во́лчий (ru) (vólčij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ву̏чјӣ

  Roman: vȕčjī (sh)

• Slovak: vlčí
• Slovene: volčji
• Spanish: lobuno (es)
• Ukrainian: во́вчий (vóvčyj)

having the characteristics of a wolf

• Belarusian: во́ўчы (vóŭčy)
• Bulgarian: въ́лчи (vǎ́lči)
• Esperanto: lupa (eo)
• Finnish: susimainen
• French: lupin (fr)
• German: wölfisch
• Occitan: lupin, alobatit
• Russian: во́лчий (ru) (vólčij)
• Spanish: lobuno (es)
• Ukrainian: во́вчий (vóvčyj)

ravenous

• Finnish: ahnas (fi)
• French: vorace (fr)
• German: mit Bärenhunger, unersättlich (de)
• Occitan: alobatit, voraç (oc)

See also

• canine
• vulpine

Etymology 2

See lupin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈluː.pɪn/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

a lupine (Lupinus polyphyllus)

lupine (plural lupines)

1. North American English form of lupin (any plant of the genus Lupinus; an edible legume seed of one of these plants).

Translations

lupin — see lupin

Further reading

• Lupinus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Lupinus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Lupinus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• Lupien, line up, line-up, lineup, pinule, unpile, up line, up-line, upline

Latin

Noun

lupīne

1. vocative singular of lupīnus