Colateral Adjectives

Colateral Adjectives

           actor, acting – histrionic , thespian     

ape (or monkey) – simian

         arrow – sagittal

bear – ursine

bee – apian bile – cholic

        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)

       cat – feline

• child – juvenile, puerile
• China – sinitic,
• church - ecclesiastical
• city – urban, civic, metropolitan
• clock – horological
• coin (or medal) – numismatic
• cooking – culinary
• copper – cupric
• countryside – rural, rustic, bucolic, agrestic
• courts - forensic
• cow – bovine
• cross – cruciate
• crossword – cruciverbal
• crow – corvinedaughter (or son) – filial

      dawn – auroral

• day – diurnal, daily
• deer – cervine
• devil – diabolic/diabolical, satanic, devilish
• dog – canine

       eagle – aquiline

• ear – aural, otic
• east – oriental, easterly
• evening – vespertine
• eye – optic, ocular, ophthalmic

      father – paternal, fatherly

• fish – piscatorial, piscine, ichthyic
• flesh – carnal
• flood – diluvial, diluvian, clysmian
• forest - sylvan
• forestry – arboricultural, silvicultural
• fox – vulpine
• frog – ranine, batrachian (also applies to toads)

       garden – horticultural

• ghost – spectral
• goat – caprine
• god – divine, god-like
• gold – auric, golden
• goose – anserine
• grass – gramineous, grassy
• Greece – Hellenic, Greek
• guardian – tutelary

      hair – pilar

• hand – manual
• hare – leporine,
• hearing – auditory, aural
• heart – cardiac
• heat – thermal,
• home - domestic, home
• horse – equine

      island – insular
      jail - carceral

• jaw (anatomy) – maxillary

      kidney – renal, nephritic, nephric

• king – regal, royal

      letter (missive) – epistolary

• life – vital
• lion – leonine
• lip (anatomy) – labial
• liver (anatomy) – hepatic
• lizard – saurian
• love (sexual) – amatory, amorous
• lung – pulmonarymachine – mechanical

      man – masculine, virile

• marriage – nuptial, conjugal, connubial, hymenea
• meaning – semantic
• milk – lactic, [milky]
• mind – mental
• money – pecuniary, financial
• monkey (or ape) – simian
• moon – lunar
• morning – matinal
• mother – maternal, [motherly]
• mouse – murine

      name – nominal

• night – nocturnal

      owl – strigine
      peacock - pavonine

• penis – phallic
• (the) people – popular, demotic
• pig – porcine
• plant – botanic(al)
• pottery – ceramic

      queen (rexina, regina) – reginal
     rain – pluvial, [rainy]

• religion – theological, [religious]
• right (direction) – dextral
• river – fluvial
• river bank – riparian

       sea – maritime, marine, pelagic

• sheep – ovine
• shepherd – pastoral
• sister – sororal
• skin – dermal
• skull – cranial
• sky – celestial
• smell (sense) – olfactory
• snake – serpentine
• sound – sonic, acoustic
• speech – verbal
• spider – arachnoid
• spring (season) – vernal, [spring-like]
• squirrel – sciurine
• (postal)stamp – philatelic
• star – stellar, sidereal, astral
• summer – (a)estival, [summery]
• sun – solar, [sunny]
• surface – superficial

      tailor – sartorial

• taste (sense) – gustatory
• town – urban
• tree – arboreal, dendroid
• truth – veracious, [truthful]

      uncle – avuncular
     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