Serine vs Ferine - What's the difference?
serine | ferine |
(amino acid) A nonessential amino acid, CH2OH.CH(NH2)COOH, found in most animal proteins, especially silk.
Pertaining to wild, menacing animals; feral.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 162:
As a verb serine
is .As an adjective ferine is
pertaining to wild, menacing animals; feral.serine
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(wikipedia serine)Noun
Synonyms
* SerDerived terms
* phosphatidylserineAnagrams
* ----ferine
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Adjective
(en adjective)- the season of rutting (an uncouth phrase, by which the vulgar denote that gentle dalliance, which in the well-wooded forest of Hampshire, passes between lovers of the ferine kind) . . .