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comparative more ferine, superlative most ferine
(now rare) Pertaining to wild, menacing animals; feral. quotations
the season of rutting (an uncouth phrase, by which the vulgar denote that gentle dalliance, which in the well-wooded forest of Hampshire, passes between lovers of the ferine kind) […]
1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 162
(zoology, obsolete) Belonging to the proposed taxon of bats, carnivorans, and insectivorans.
plural ferines
(zoology, obsolete) A member of the proposed taxon of bats, carnivorans, and insectivorans.