Animal Adjectives ant/ formicid , bee/ apian , bird/ avian , crow/ corvine , songbird/ oniscine , cod/ gadoid , carp/ cyprine , fish/ piscine , gull/ laridine , wasp/ vespine , butterfly/ papilionaceous , worm/ vermian , spider/ arachnidan , snake/ anguine , turtle/ testudinian , cat/ feline , rabbit/ cunicular , hare/ leporine , dog/ canine , deer/ cervine , mouse/ murine , reindeer/ rangiferine , fox/ vulpine , wolf/ lupine , goat/ caprine , sheep/ ovine , swan/ cygnean , duck/ anatine , starling/ sturnine , goose/ anserine , mongoose/ herpestine , grouse/ tetraonine , ostrich/ struthionine , horse/ equine , chicken/ gallinaceous , cattle/ bovine , pig/ porcine , agouti/ dasyproctine , whale/ cetacean , kangaroo/ macropine , ape/ simian , frog/ batrachian , bear/ ursine , man/ human or hominid ( gender specific : man/ masculine , woman/ feminine ) Latin influence on English that means "like this animal" 45