Cygnine vs Anserine - What's the difference?
cygnine | anserine |
(zoology) Being of the genus Cygnus'' (swan), within subfamily Anserinae of the family Anatidae, though sometimes considered a distinct subfamily, '' .
* 1869 , Elliott Coues, On the Classification of Water Birds , Merrihew & Son (1870),
Of, concerning, pertaining to, resembling, or having the characteristics of a swan or swans.
* 1848 , Edmund Saul Dixon, Ornamental and Domestic Poultry ,
* 1915 , in Zoologische Jahrbücher: Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und , volume 38, page 44:
* 1949 , G. L. Hendrickson, Classical Philology, Vol. 44, No. 1,
*:...scarcely a translator can be found who conveys any other impression than that Horace becomes a swan before our eyes. One almost wonders in what cygnine dialect the rest of the poem was spoken.
(dated) An alkaloid from plants of genus , found in Australia, principally Western Australia, highly toxic to introduced animals.
Being from the subfamily Anserinae of the family Anatidae.
Of, concerning, or resembling a goose or geese; gooselike.
Silly, foolish, stupid.
Anserine is a see also of cygnine.
Cygnine is a see also of anserine.
As adjectives the difference between cygnine and anserine
is that cygnine is (zoology) being of the genus cygnus'' (swan), within subfamily anserinae of the family anatidae, though sometimes considered a distinct subfamily, '' while anserine is being from the subfamily anserinae of the family anatidae.As a noun cygnine
is (dated) an alkaloid from plants of genus , found in australia, principally western australia, highly toxic to introduced animals.cygnine
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Adjective
(en adjective)page 26:
- The genus Choristopus , Eyton, apparently Anserine rather than Cygnine , is said to possess this character
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- But, in the cutting of it, if thou dost shed / One drop of cygnine blood, thy clumsiness...
- On the whole, then, the bones of the pectoral arch in Dendrocygna — if we may judge from the two North American species of the genus — are more anatine than they are either anserine or cygnine .
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