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Verine vs Ferine - What's the difference?

verine | ferine |

As a noun verine

is (organic compound) an alkaloid obtained as a yellow amorphous substance by the decomposition of veratrine.

As an adjective ferine is

pertaining to wild, menacing animals; feral.

verine

English

Noun

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  • (organic compound) An alkaloid obtained as a yellow amorphous substance by the decomposition of veratrine.
    • (Webster 1913) ----

    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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