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Lupine   /lˈupˌaɪn/   Listen
Lupine

noun
1.
Any plant of the genus Lupinus; bearing erect spikes of usually purplish-blue flowers.  Synonym: lupin.



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"Lupine" Quotes from Famous Books



... England by men whose descendants are probably still living—at least so Professor Boyd Dawkins solemnly assures us; while in Siberia his frozen body, flesh and all, is found so very fresh that the wolves devour it, without raising any unnecessary question as to its fitness for lupine food. The Glacial Epoch is the yesterday of geological time, and it was the Glacial Epoch that finally killed off the last mammoth. Then, again, there is his neighbour, the mastodon. That big tertiary proboscidean did ...
— Falling in Love - With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science • Grant Allen
... or loup-garou [65] was a person who had the power of transforming himself into a wolf, being endowed, while in the lupine state, with the intelligence of a man, the ferocity of a wolf, and the irresistible strength of a demon. The ancients believed in the existence of such persons; but in the Middle Ages the metamorphosis ...
— Myths and Myth-Makers - Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology • John Fiske
... entombment of the race in a most curious fashion. They have a grand annual dance. One of them, naked as he was born, is buried in the earth; the others, clothed in wolf-skins, walk over him, snuff around him, howl in lupine style, and finally dig him up ...
— Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel • Ignatius Donnelly


Words linked to "Lupine" :   bluebonnet, Lupinus luteus, genus Lupinus, buffalo clover, Lupinus albus, wolf, wolf bean, Texas bluebonnet, false lupine, Lupinus subcarnosus, ligneous plant, woody plant, Lupinus texensis, Lupinus


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