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Serine vs Ferine - What's the difference?

serine | ferine |

As a verb serine

is .

As an adjective ferine is

pertaining to wild, menacing animals; feral.

serine

English

(wikipedia serine)

Noun

  • (amino acid) A nonessential amino acid, CH2OH.CH(NH2)COOH, found in most animal proteins, especially silk.
  • Synonyms

    * Ser

    Derived terms

    * phosphatidylserine

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    ferine

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to wild, menacing animals; feral.
  • * 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 162:
  • 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) . . .

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