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Synonyms for lupine
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : loo-pin |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈlu pɪn |
Définition of lupine
Origin :- "wolf-like," 1650s, from French lupine "wolf-like," from Latin lupinus "of the wolf," from lupus "wolf" (see wolf (n.)).
- adj wolflike
- He had, however, taught his wife how to treat him when in his lupine form.
- Extract from : « Traditions, Superstitions and Folk-lore » by Charles Hardwick
- Burton, this lupine, leering lover of blood—this killer of women.
- Extract from : « The Red Debt » by Everett MacDonald
- This had, for two or three days, disputed the ground with the lupine and phlox.
- Extract from : « At Home And Abroad » by Margaret Fuller Ossoli
- She was on her way, I suppose, to some wild garden, probably for lupine and starchy saxifrage leaves and rootstocks.
- Extract from : « My First Summer in the Sierra » by John Muir
- Lupine-seed, in plant-lore “lupine” means wolfish, and is suggestive of the Evil One.
- Extract from : « The Browning Cyclopdia » by Edward Berdoe
- Barley, which grows more rapidly than the lupine, was sown to protect the plants while very young.
- Extract from : « The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits » by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
- It is also fine for lattice work, or it may be grown where it can appropriate the dried stems of lupine and larkspurs.
- Extract from : « Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers » by John Wood
- Its likeness to loup may have given occasion to the fiction of their taking the lupine form.
- Extract from : « The Fairy Mythology » by Thomas Keightley
- Near the summit of the mound the path was lost in a foam of the blue, lilac, and white butterfly blossoms of the lupine.
- Extract from : « Everyday Adventures » by Samuel Scoville
- Beyond the lupine stood a rank of dazzling white turkey-beards, the xerophyllum of the botanists.
- Extract from : « Everyday Adventures » by Samuel Scoville
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