arietine
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arietine (comparative more arietine, superlative most arietine)
- (zoology, rare) Of, like, or pertaining to rams.
- 1871 June 1, “Morality in Fiction”, in The Literary World, page 8:
- The great public, who follow the bell-wether with trusting confidence, and with the greater eagerness if the scent of scandal comes from his direction, tumbled pell-mell through the gap in the fence discovered by their arietine leader, and the whole pasture resounded with ovine voices of dismay.
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of, like, or pertaining to rams
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- “arietine”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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arietīne