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US
/ˈɫuˌpaɪn/
]
ADJECTIVE
- of or relating to or characteristic of wolves
NOUN
- any plant of the genus Lupinus; bearing erect spikes of usually purplish-blue flowers
How To Use lupine In A Sentence
- When older wolves can no longer hunt successfully, younger wolves share their kill with them, in what MacNulty describes as a lupine version of Social Security. EurekAlert! - Breaking News
- They argued that the lupine fantasy could be seen as a fundamental challenge to Western notions of subjectivity.
- The latter was fiercely jealous, and if Parsons showed obvious affection toward someone, Patsy howled as though she were calling upon all her lupine ancestors to come forth and carry off the intruder.
- It was made of barley; certain herbs, such as lupine and skirret, were used as substitutes for hops. Smith's Bible Dictionary
- Charging a measly 20 bucks, Canada's favourite lupine hippie rocked a sold-out audience at das Kool Haus for pretty close to an hour and 45 minutes.
- We have found the wild tulip, the primrose, the lupine, the eardrop, the larkspur, and creeping hollyhock, and a beautiful flower resembling the bloom of the beech tree, but in bunches as large as a small sugarloaf, and of every variety of shade, to red and green. The Passing of the Frontier; a chronicle of the old West
- Pink spikes and white and vivid blue spikes; masses of brown and orange cups, like low-growing tulips; ranks of beautiful vetches and purple lupines; escholtzias, like immense sweeps of golden sunlight; wild sweet peas; trumpet-shaped blossoms whose name no one knew, -- all flung broadcast over the face of the land, and in such stintless quantities that it dazzled the mind to think of as it did the eyes to behold them. Clover
- As we climb, the maze of trees, ferns, and blueberry bushes gives way to subalpine meadows painted with purple lupine, pale blue gentians, crimson columbine, and yellow arnica.
- Ogre emerged sporting a large lupine mask, flanked by Key on a synth riser, a live drummer and a guitarist wielding a double-necked axe straight out of a Thor video.
- The girls get their costumes ripped off by the lupine guy in the white jacket and ripped jeans.