Let's go animals!

 20 Incredible Animal Adjectives to Go Wild For!!

Are you a pet keeper? Then, I bet you are an animal lover. Today, let us test how many animal adjectives we are familiar with!

Here are some examples:

-     vulpine: meaning literally “fox-like” or figuratively “sly/clever/resourceful”

-     anserine:  meaning literally “resembling a goose”/ “goose-like” or figuratively somebody acting like a “silly goose” / foolish/ stupid/ silly

 

Are you ready to explore the world of animal vocabulary?

    1.   Be careful because they sting!:  v______ine

 

2.   Bald is one variety: a____iline

 

3.   The king of the jungle: l_____nine

   

    4.   Smokey, Grizzly, Polar, or Winnie the Pooh: u_____ne

 

5.   When something slithers past, making hissing noise: s______tine

 

6.   family of birds including the crows, ravens, and jays: c______ine

 

7.   more than 500 species of rats/ rodent: m_____ine

 

    8.   You find them at the beach or in astrology/ crab-like: c______ine

 

    9.  Resembling the feathers of a peacock, as in coloring: pa______ine

 

    10. They’re at home in the oceans, lakes, and rivers: p______ine

 

    11.   They look good in stripes: z_________id

 

Answer Keys

    1.  vespine

    2.  aquiline

    3.  leonine

    4.  ursine

    5.  serpentine

    6.  corvine

    7.  murine

    8.  cancrine

    9.  pavonine

    10.  piscine

    11. zebroid

 

*source from dictionary.com