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-ine

  1. (suffix added to names of persons, animals, or material things, and to some other words, with the sense "of" or "pertaining to," "of the nature of")
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suffix

  1. (forming names of discrete substances)
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suffix

  1. (noun suffix used particularly in chemical terms, and especially in names of basic substances)
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suffix

  1. (suffix of feminine nouns (heroine), given names (Clementine), and titles (landgravine))
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /-aɪn/ / /-iːn/ / /-ɪn~-ən/

suffix

Etymology: From taxonomic suffix -inae, ultimately from the same root as Etymology 1.

  1. used to form vernacular nouns and adjectives relating to animal taxonomic subfamilies

    cardueline, velociraptorine