Can you name the Animal adjectives that end in 'ine'?

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Animal Adjectives Quiz

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Created Dec 15, 2008 in Language
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	cmkeller:	Dec 15th, 2008 at 16:09 GMT	1 point
	You've got "Wolf" there twice.

	Spammo:	Dec 15th, 2008 at 16:11 GMT	8 points
	8/20...pretty brutal if you didn't take the right language in high school...

	magister:	Dec 15th, 2008 at 16:11 GMT	17 points
	Excellent game. I'll be playing this one for a while!! But where's asinine? Hehe, I can even complain about omissions on a quiz like this!!

	Tim_Allen:	Dec 15th, 2008 at 16:14 GMT	6 points
	Wow, they changed that quickly. Kudos to you, Sporcle. You're always on top of your game.

	PresidentJSC:	Dec 15th, 2008 at 16:32 GMT	3 points
	I should have done better, but just forgot all my latin!

	HollywoodLeo:	Dec 15th, 2008 at 16:36 GMT	4 points
	lol, I only knew 3.

	pdu:	Dec 15th, 2008 at 16:49 GMT	4 points
	Ha, you're good Leo, I got 2 - though after reading the answers I see I should have known about 3 more ;)

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	SirZapdos:	Dec 15th, 2008 at 17:13 GMT	1 point
	11/20. It would be pretty tough if one were not well versed in latin or any of the romance language. I used my knowledge of french to deduce a few of them. Interesting quiz though.

	Idran:	Dec 15th, 2008 at 18:23 GMT	8 points
	@dorp: Swine is a noun, not an adjective.

	Tahnan:	Dec 15th, 2008 at 18:54 GMT	8 points
	Wait, the adjectival form of "seal" isn't "sealion"?

	Robert_Lo:	Dec 15th, 2008 at 19:01 GMT	4 points
	I only got 4...and this isn't those quizzes where I simply forgot the answers. I have never heard any of the answers before...damn this is bad. goes back to grade school

	prototypetolyfe:	Dec 15th, 2008 at 19:01 GMT	2 points
	7/20 on my first try, and i take latin. I'm ashamed...

	Hetch:	Dec 15th, 2008 at 19:06 GMT	-4 points
	the word COW is broadly, and incorrectly applied to all members of the Domestic Cattle family, however, in actuality the word means a breeding age female whale, cattle, elephant, moose, elk, and just about every other large cetacean or ungulate

	pete:	Dec 15th, 2008 at 19:10 GMT	14 points
	where's vulpine?

	ElDavo:	Dec 15th, 2008 at 19:12 GMT	11 points
	Currently in my third year of Latin... got 7/20. @dorp: It's based on the Latin "porcus" meaning pig. @Jeff Hetchler: You knew what it was, though, right? Good, now shut up.

	ntnon:	Dec 15th, 2008 at 19:24 GMT	4 points
	I agree with pete - Vulpine is far more commonly known than many of these.

	SillyStokey92:	Dec 15th, 2008 at 19:30 GMT	-1 points
	Wow, none. Not surprised, I know NO Latin (and I didn't understand the rules. LOL)

	debbiedoesnothin:	Dec 15th, 2008 at 20:59 GMT	7 points
	8/20. This is one of those where I'm slapping my head afterwards - duh! I should've had a lot more. Deer and wolf - I just looked those up recently and couldn't remember them. Turtle - the Terrapins, dammit. Bear and goats - should've thought of the constellations. Pork, the other white meat. I feel so freaking dumb.

	Dustfinger:	Dec 15th, 2008 at 22:10 GMT	-3 points
	I got 11 and i'm in 2nd year french!

	Michael:	Dec 15th, 2008 at 22:46 GMT	20 points
	I believe that Ranine should be acceptable for Frogs.

	davidr:	Dec 16th, 2008 at 00:47 GMT	10 points
	@Michael: Agreed. From the OED: "2. Resembling a frog; of the nature of a frog; of, relating to, or characteristic of frogs."

	radish:	Dec 16th, 2008 at 02:14 GMT	5 points
	Shame I study Biology and I only got 12/20. Truth be told I haven't taken the Chordate Biology course, will do next semester, so I suppose I would have known the 20 had this quiz appeared in May '09.

	Candleduck:	Dec 16th, 2008 at 03:05 GMT	-1 points
	The rules were poorly explained for this game, at the same time I know little to no Latin at all so I doubt better rules would have helped me get more than O answers correct. More language related quizzes would certainly be awesome though!!

	jereboam:	Dec 16th, 2008 at 10:04 GMT	9 points
	Avine? Dictionary.com doesn't have it. Avian is the usual adjective. Otherwise 8/20.

	davidr:	Dec 16th, 2008 at 10:29 GMT	9 points
	@radish*: You haven't done the Chordate Biology course? Get some backbone, man!

	davidr:	Dec 16th, 2008 at 10:36 GMT	3 points
	@Charlotte and Sarah: I'm not sure how else the rules could have been described — the title of the quiz was enough for me. And, although these words are (all?) derived from Latin, they are all, er, bona fide English words. Some of them are pretty obscure but I think I'd expect any native English speaker to recognize `canine' and `feline', even if they didn't know they came from the Latin for dog and cat, respectively. I've never been taught any Latin and I got half of these.

	davidr:	Dec 16th, 2008 at 10:37 GMT	7 points
	@jereboam: `Avine' is in the OED as an alternative for `avian', though the latter seems to be much more common. I was going to suggest it as an alternative but it goes against the -ine theme of the quiz.

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	raggedyanne:	Dec 16th, 2008 at 15:00 GMT	2 points
	12/20. Figured out a few by recalling some etymological roots, others I just knew. Got the sheep one from reading Thursday Next novels. ;)

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	Bray:	Dec 20th, 2008 at 16:45 GMT	2 points
	6/20. Canine, Feline, Bovine were ones I knew, Avine and Equine were educated guesses, and Ovine was a complete guess. Shoulda got Lupine. =/

	R:	Jan 14th, 2009 at 21:15 GMT	2 points
	Some buried knowledge of Latin plus some Esperanto got me 12/20, hurray!

	Torch:	Feb 7th, 2009 at 14:25 GMT	2 points
	Eesh! Only 5. Though I had no idea what it was, I tried ermine, but to no avail. Kept spelling porcine with a 'k' too. Oh well. Tough quiz.

	akkum:	Feb 15th, 2009 at 10:06 GMT	0 points
	should have given an example..... great effort

	LaStic:	Feb 21st, 2009 at 12:29 GMT	2 points
	I accidentally put in caaprine. Got 12

	ensiform:	Feb 21st, 2009 at 23:06 GMT	2 points
	11/20, and pretty ok with that, because I honestly have never heard of the 9 i missed. And what - no vulpine?