12 Animal Adjectives to Bolster Your Vocabulary

  1. ANGUINE

    The word means snakelike.

  2. BUTEONINE

    Resembling a buzzard.

  3. DELPHINE

    Delphine is an obsolete adjective referring to the dolphin.

  4. DIDELPHINE

    It’s a variant of didelphian (double uterus) and refers to a subclass of marsupials including opossums.

  5. HIPPOCAMPINE

    A rarely used adjective relating to seahorses.

  6. LIMACINE

    Of, relating to, or resembling a slug, slime.

  7. MACROPODINE

    Refers to kangaroos or wallabies.

  8. MEPHITINE

    Skunk-like.

  9. MURINE

    Relating to a mouse or mice.

  10. MUSTELINE

    Of or belonging to a weasel.

  11. PHOCINE
    Rresembling a seal.

  12. PICINE

    Like a woodpecker.

From MentalFloss. Further boost your Scrabble mojo with these obscure words illustrated in bold graphics, then find some more in these 10 favorite books on animals.  (via explore-blog)

prairie-homo-companion:

lol i cant even begin to tell you how much i dont care about PROPER ANATOMY

ok no that is a lie— things go in the right places. that helps. that makes things look good and not fucked up

but personally i enjoy the kind of fucked up where an artist is deforming things on purpose or placing things in places they may not EXACTLY belong for the purpose of composition, rather than not being very careful about drawing

so-the-little-honda:

If anyone wants my drunken thoughts on why The Great Gatsby can never be A Great Movie: It’s because it’s really all about the writer/reader isn’t it? The things that are good about The Great Gatsby are things that can never be transferred to screen, it’s the suggestion and the shit that Fitzgerald leaves you to figure out on your own. No one can tell you what you’re supposed to think about that orange juicer.