I'm a canis infernum~

:o

I thought you were one of those pokey men.

Gigas canis infernum~

Bigger gigas canis infernum?

Obnatus Magna Gigas Canis Infernum

munrefnI sinaC

Aeternum Obnatus Magna Gigas Canis Infernum?

Yeah, that about sums it up...man I really like the sound of that too~

^

Your also a wobbly wiggler :3. I think what ends up happening is people writing stories ends up thinking wolf and canine is excessive in the story after using the word thirty times or more o.o.

There's only so many times you can get away with calling a wolf a big dog too

Lol yes i know im sure I ve used kt as such in the past too. It doesnt really matter, but i think its one of those words like 'said', where the author feels like they are using it too much but the reader doesn't notice.

I HAVE TO NEEEEEERDDDD

Wolf = Canis Lupus. :3
Genus: Canis
Species: Lupus

Lupine
lu·pine1
ˈlo͞opin/
noun
noun: lupin; plural noun: lupins; noun: lupine; plural noun: lupines; noun: Russell lupin; plural noun: Russell lupins; noun: Russell lupine; plural noun: Russell lupines

a plant of the pea family, with deeply divided leaves and tall, colorful, tapering spikes of flowers.

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lu·pine2
ˈlo͞oˌpīn/
adjective
adjective: lupine
of, like, or relating to a wolf or wolves.

"a lupine howl"


So technically, when someone said "The lupine sat on the chair heavily" he did not realize that lupine as a noun means a plant of the pea family, with deeply divided leaves and tall, colorful, tapering spikes of flowers sat on the chair heavily. Gee, I did not know plants had the ability to see on chairs.

Lol, so from your information, the word 'lupus' would also fit?

Thats... unfortunate :o

I'm lucky because I can just use spottious maximus for me :p.

In taxonomic categorization, the word Lupus is the latin word for the Wolf species; however, domestic dogs are also categorized as lupus. Canis, which the word Canine (K-9, Arkan-nine[pokemon lol]) drives, is just the genus. Both wolves and domestic dogs are canines.

Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Suborder: Caniformia
Family: Canidae
Tribe: Canini
Genus: Canis
Linnaeus, 1758[2]
Extant Species
Canis adustus
Canis anthus
Canis aureus
Canis latrans
Canis lupus1
1 C. lupus also includes domestic dogs, C. l. familiaris and dingos, C. l. dingo

Canis mesomelas
Canis rufus
Canis simensis
Canis lycaon

Foxes come from the same family group, but they have a differen tribe and genus:

Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Suborder: Caniformia
Family: Canidae
Tribe: Vulpini
Genus: Vulpes
Frisch, 1775
Type species
Vulpes vulpes[1]
Linnaeus, 1758
Species
Vulpes bengalensis
Vulpes cana
Vulpes chama
Vulpes corsac
Vulpes ferrilata
Vulpes lagopus
Vulpes macrotis
Vulpes pallida
Vulpes rueppellii
Vulpes velox
Vulpes vulpes
Vulpes zerda

The typical red fox is Vulpes Vulpes or for short Vulpines.

TIL that a Lupine is a pea plant...........

I swear to god I'm gonna visualize a fucking pea plant any time I read someone using the word Lupine to describe something now. My sides can't take that much abuse.

this comment made me laugh. cherish this comment.

cherish it.

It's also a noun but only when referring to the plant.

meh to each there own opinion, while technically im a folf (1/4 fox 3/4 grey wolf) i can understand this

But what if its a new, made up species of very wolf like animals?

Then it would be a lupine species, and not a lupine.

Unless you called them lupines as a name, in which case congratulations, youve cheated the system ^^

yay! I'm smart enough to cheat the system! :D

What about calling them a canine?

This is correct ^^ (as I mentioned in the OP :p

How about a "BORK BORK BORK"? Swedish Chef style? And did you know sauceless meatballs actually do bounce a little?

Yes and no respectivley!

Also my back itches.

What is that train thing got to do with this toptic?

He got bored while his train was stopped, so he made this post.

It's called an adjectival noun.

Nah.

Then I'm telling on you.

Then you'd be a rat. I like rats.

Engl-rish har-duh-duh...

Personally, I'm homo-sapiens sarcasticus.

I used to call rabbits lapines until I realised that was just a made up word from Watership Down. The actual taxonomical classification is Leporidae, therefore the correct term for describing rabbits is leporines. Shame, I rather liked the sound of lapines, but can't fight facts.

As to wolves though I'm probably guilty of using lupine, although come to think of it I don't recall any of the characters in my stories being wolves, so now I'm not sure. I get why they do it though, the same reason that I used feline, leporine, etc. Because typing "the rabbit" "the cat" gets so so old after a time.

It is in fact a noun as well...if you're writing a story about a plant with tall stems of small cone flowers lol

Sometimes one needs to understand disambiguation, and they were provided by somefuzzy here
I'd also raise a linked issue, that clearly it can be annoying to use lupine over and over again, use different descriptors!
Most of us at his point in our life don't really care too much/enough, but it does eventually matter
If your a writer for a story even a short one, try to mix things up a little! We didn't learn about a thesaurus in elementary school for nothing
Synonyms do not equal SINonyms

Most languages, including English, implicitly allow adjectives to be used as nouns. If you wanted to complain about the incredibly poor diction shown by furry "writers" as a whole, more power to you, but there are far better examples. Frankly, the fact that you regard "lupine" as incorrect but "canine" as correct simply shows you don't even know what you're talking about in the first place.

tl;dr lrn2english n00b

But canine is a noun for a dog? Why would it not be appropriate to use?

"The canine sat on the chair heavily"

From Wikipedia:
"The gray wolf or grey wolf (Canis lupus), also known as the timber wolf or western wolf, is a canine native to the wilderness and remote areas of Eurasia and North America."

Canine = wolf. Dogs are also in the same category.

You can also call him "he".

Just sayin'.

I'll surely personally take the advice; thanks.

Edit: I'm also coming to realize that I've been using "vulpine" wrong the same way. ;3; Learning and researching more for myself now so that I don't continue to obliviously make more mistakes.~