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The animal adjectives thread began August 2000 and, after it seemed dead, revivified in November, in December, and in March, April, June, August, October and November of 2001. Since it seems to have run through the the feline nine lives (and is now at 92 posts), it seems time to restart it with a new thread.
Warning: "category killer" sites can be found by a little googling. It may be more fun to proceed without search engines. From those sites come the recent
bubaline: buffalo-like
struthionine: ostrich-like
To my surprise, the sites reveal that when tsuwm told us that giraffe-like = giraffine, he was being serious, not gi-raffish. But I could not answer ASp's and archie's plea for the term for "cockroach-like". Apparently "cockroach" derives as a combination (for unknown reasons) of cock=rooster and roach=the fish.
What else can be uncovered?
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Hasn't archie been invoked recently? If there's no readily available term for converting into adjectives the cockroach of mixed origin, perhaps we could propose "archiform" or some equivalent. I don't think his feline friend would object.
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Dear Faldage: for cockroach I find "blattid" in many sites.I could not find "blattine".
Signals over. I went back once more and found this:
THE Blattinae (Periplanetinae) form the fourth subfamily of the Blattidae.
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Blattine
I coined it, Dr. Bill. (In the spirit of this week's theme)
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Hm... can't believe that in all this time we missed the adjective asinine.
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Let's see...on the original animals adjectives thread tsuwm's offer of hirsine for goat adjective was mentioned, but not its companion: caprine, which is a curious omission what with Capricorn....that is, if in my quick scanning this morning, I missed caprine.
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