Meaning of cygnine | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Being of the genus Cygnus (swans), within subfamily Anserinae of the family Anatidae, though sometimes considered a distinct subfamily, Cygninae.
2. Of, concerning, relating to, resembling, or characteristic of swans.

Examples

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

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

“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.”

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