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cygnine

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Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (deprecated template usage) cygnus + (deprecated template usage) -ine

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) cygnine

  1. Of, or concerning swans; being of the genus Cygnus, within subfamily Anserinae of the family Anatidae.
    • 1901 — Elliott Coues, On the Classification of Water Birds, "Publications of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia": 53: 193-218, p216, footnote
      The genus Choristopus, Eyton, apparently Anserine rather than Cygnine, is said to possess this character []
  2. Resembling a swan; swanlike.

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