lupine

1. 1.

   of or relating to or characteristic of wolves

Other forms of lupine

plural

lupines·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about lupine

What does lupine mean?

lupine means "any plant of the genus Lupinus; bearing erect spikes of usually purplish-blue flowers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lupine?

lupine has 2 syllables: lu-pine. The stress falls on "lu". In IPA it is /ˈluˌpaɪn/.

What is another word for lupine?

Close synonyms include lupin. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lupine a common word?

lupine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with lupine?

6 words rhyme with lupine. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.