Cygnine

Quick meaning: Cygnine is an adjective meaning Of, concerning, relating to, resembling, or characteristic of swans.

Meaning

Of, concerning, relating to, resembling, or characteristic of swans.

More Meanings

1. (zoology) Being of the genus Cygnus (swans), within subfamily Anserinae of the family Anatidae, though sometimes considered a distinct subfamily, Cygninae.
2. (dated) An alkaloid from plants of genus Gastrolobium, found in Australia, principally Western Australia, highly toxic to introduced animals.

Example Sentences

But, in the cutting of it, if thou dost shed / One drop of cygnine blood, thy clumsiness.

The genus Choristopus, Eyton, apparently Anserine rather than Cygnine, is said to possess this character […]

On the whole, then, the bones of the pectoral arch in Dendrocygna — if we may judge from the two North American species of the genus — are more anatine than they are either anserine or cygnine.

1949, G. L. Hendrickson, Classical Philology, Vol. 44, No. 1, page 30 alternate ...scarcely a translator can be found who conveys any other impression than that Horace becomes a swan before our eyes. One almost wonders in what cygnine dialect the rest of the poem was spoken.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include anatine, zygaenine, cotyligerous, gonydial, gymnotiform, cnephasiine.

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