| 词组 | equine |
| 释义 | equine Equine is chiefly an adjective meaning "of, relating to, or resembling a horse or the horse family": • ... the recent outbreak of an equine venereal disease on two breeding farms —N.Y. Times, 17 Mar. 1978 It also occasionally occurs as a noun, usually synonymous with horse: • Flannery's horseflesh is several stables away from the stiffly noble equines of the classic English and American horse-painter schools —Time, 29 Oct. 1951 Both the adjective and the noun occur most naturally in scientific contexts. Their use in general contexts in which the writer is being playfully fancy or is trying to avoid repeating the word horse is discouraged by Flesch 1964 and Copperud 1980. See also canine; feline. |
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