Meaning & use
lupine
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Relating to or resembling a wolf or wolves.
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The dog's lupine features made people mistake it for a wolf hybrid.
He had a lean, lupine look that unsettled strangers.
A note on using this word
As a noun, 'lupine' (or lupin) also names a flowering plant in the pea family, an unrelated meaning from the same Latin root for wolf, since the plant was once thought to exhaust nutrients from soil.
Words with a similar meaning
wolfish
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Another way to use it
2. noun
A flowering plant of the pea family with tall spikes of colorful blossoms.
Fields of wild lupine bloomed purple along the highway in June.
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