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lupine

adjective as in wolflike

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Akysonov has a gang of fascistic ultras known as the Lupine Hordes, which are intent on invading Moscow and restoring Holy Russia.

America is at war with Lupine rebels, because the country is rich in uranium.

A lavender-colored arctic lupine grows in decorative masses.

And what more thoroughly representative of cruelty, savageness, and treachery than a wolf, or even something partly lupine!

Poppies and lupine and many others are the flower tradition of California but they are not what I mean here.

Like these creatures, it was canine in shape—lupine we should rather say—but of an exceedingly grotesque and ungainly figure.

There was something furtive and lupine about him that suggested the wild beast stalking its kill.

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On this page you'll find 7 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to lupine, such as: plant, fierce, rapacious, ravenous, and wolfish.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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