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leopardine en · ADJ

Etymology

From leopard + -ine.

Meanings

Resembling or characteristic of a leopard.
- My leopardine beauties are rarer 1901, Thomas Hardy, 'The Mother Mourns' in Poems of the Past and the Present, Macmillan (1903), page 73
- Near-synonym: leopardlike (sometimes synonymous)

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
most leopardine	Degree=Sup		lexicographic
more leopardine	Degree=Cmp		lexicographic

Coordinates

leonine · tigrine

Hypernyms

feline · pantherine

Synonyms