Saturday 28 July 2012

Colateral Adjectives

Colateral Adjectives
           actor, actinghistrionic , thespian     
         arrowsagittal
        bird – avian, ornithic, volucrine
    blood – h(a)emal, h(a)ematic, h(a)emic, h(a)ematal, sanguineous
  • body – corporal, corporeal, physical, somatic, carnal, [bodily]
  • book – bibliographic
  • boxing – pugilistic, fistic
  • brain – cerebral, cerebric, encephalic
  • bread – panary
  • breast – mammary, mammilary
  • breeding season – nuptial
  • brother – fraternal
  • bull – taurine
  • butterfly – papilionaceous, lepidopterous (also applies to moths)
       catfeline
      dawnauroral
       eagleaquiline
      fatherpaternal, fatherly
       gardenhorticultural
      hairpilar
      island – insular
      jail - carceral
      kidney – renal, nephritic, nephric
  • king – regal, royal
      letter (missive) – epistolary
      man – masculine, virile
      namenominal
      owl – strigine
      peacock - pavonine
      queen (rexina, regina) – reginal
     rain – pluvial, [rainy]
       sea – maritime, marine, pelagic
      tailor – sartorial
  • taste (sense) – gustatory
  • town – urban
  • tree – arboreal, dendroid
  • truth – veracious, [truthful]
      uncleavuncular
     vinegar - acetic
     wasp – vespine
  • water – aqueous, [watery]
  • whale – cetaceous
  • wife – uxorial
  • wind – aeolian (British), eolian (US), [windy]
  • wolf – lupine, [wolfish]
  • wood (area of trees) – sylvan
  • woman – feminine, [womanly]
  • word – lexical, verbal (usually refers to the spoken word)
      xeric – desert