On cervine carbon-fibre pins, she is a paralympic runner. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-05-01] Reference
But, for the time being, this cervine creature will not be seen in cyberspace. From Wordnik.com. [Bull Moose] Reference
Moose, as well as other members of the cervine family, live mostly on the shoots of trees, but they die mostly by the shoots of hunters. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 14, July 2, 1870] Reference
The next stage from the rusine to the cervine or elaphine type is the rucervine. From Wordnik.com. [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference
The true cervine type of horn I have already described in its progress from youth to age. From Wordnik.com. [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference
It was a magnificent cervine army with white banners, and I shall never look upon its like again. From Wordnik.com. [Woodcraft] Reference
The next phase of development of which we have examples in India is the true cervine or elaphine type of horn in which the brow-tine is doubled by the addition of the bez; the royal is greatly enlarged at the expense of the tres-tine, and breaks out into the branches known as the sur-royals. From Wordnik.com. [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference
"From this survey it is obvious that the cervine antlers have increased in size and complexity from the Mid-Miocene to the. From Wordnik.com. [Darwinism (1889)] Reference
"With head erect, antlers thrown back, his white throat exposed, his tail raised, his whole body gathered together, prepared to bound away into the deep forest in the twinkling of an eye, he stands a splendid specimen of the cervine tribe. From Wordnik.com. [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference
Ine adjectives that pertain to, resemble or are characteristic of an animal: accipitrine ` hawklike 'leonine ` lionlike' anguine ` snakelike 'lupine ` wolflike' anserine ` gooselike 'lutrine ` otterlike' aquiline ` eaglelike 'murine ` mouselike' asinine ` asslike 'oscine ` songbirdlike' bovine ` cowlike 'ovine ` sheeplike' canine ` doglike 'passerine ` perching - caprine ` goatlike' songbirdlike 'cervine ` deerlike' pavonine ` peacocklike 'colubrine ` kingsnakelike' piscine ` fishlike 'or ` gartersnakelike' porcine ` piglike or elephantine ` elephantlike '` swinelike' equine ` horselike 'ranine ` froglike' feline ` catlike 'serpentine ` serpentlike' herpestine ` mongooselike 'suilline ` hoglike' hircine ` goatlike, 'especially suine ` swinelike' in strong odor taurine ` bull-like 'or lustfulness ursine ` bearlike' lacertine or lacertilian viperine ` viperlike '. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 3] Reference
It is already clear that Man was contemporary in Europe with two species of elephant, now extinct, E. primigenius and E. antiquus, two also of rhinoceros, R. tichorhinus and R. hemitoechus (Falc.), at least one species of hippopotamus, the cave-bear, cave-lion, and cave-hyaena, various bovine, equine, and cervine animals now extinct, and many smaller Carnivora, Rodentia, and Insectivora. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquity of Man] Reference
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