EQUINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does equine mean? 

• EQUINE (noun)
  The noun EQUINE has 1 sense:

1. hoofed mammals having slender legs and a flat coat with a narrow mane along the back of the neck

  Familiarity information: EQUINE used as a noun is very rare.

• EQUINE (adjective)
  The adjective EQUINE has 2 senses:

1. resembling a horse

2. of or belonging to the family Equidae

  Familiarity information: EQUINE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EQUINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hoofed mammals having slender legs and a flat coat with a narrow mane along the back of the neck

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

equid; equine

Hypernyms ("equine" is a kind of...):

odd-toed ungulate; perissodactyl; perissodactyl mammal (placental mammals having hooves with an odd number of toes on each foot)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "equine"):

Equus caballus; horse (solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times)

ass (hardy and sure-footed animal smaller and with longer ears than the horse)

mule (hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse; usually sterile)

hinny (hybrid offspring of a male horse and a female donkey or ass; usually sterile)

zebra (any of several fleet black-and-white striped African equines)

Equus quagga; quagga (mammal of South Africa that resembled a zebra; extinct since late 19th century)

Holonyms ("equine" is a member of...):

Equidae; family Equidae (horses; asses; zebras; extinct animals)

Derivation:

equine (of or belonging to the family Equidae)

• EQUINE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Resembling a horse

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

horse (solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of or belonging to the family Equidae

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

Equidae (horses; asses; zebras; extinct animals)

Derivation:

equine (hoofed mammals having slender legs and a flat coat with a narrow mane along the back of the neck)

 Context examples 

A species of lentivirus, subgenus equine lentiviruses, causing acute and chronic infection in horses.

(Equine Infectious Anemia Virus, NCI Thesaurus)

The alphaviral replicon of this vaccine is an attenuated strain of the Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (VEEV) in which 3 of the 7 viral genes were substituted with a truncated HER2 gene to create a self-amplifying replicon RNA.

(HER2 ECD+TM Virus-like Replicon Particles Vaccine AVX901, NCI Thesaurus)