Definition of anserine Anserine
an•ser•ine
We found 8 definitions of anserine from 4 different sources.
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What does anserine mean?
WordNet
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| anserine - having or revealing stupidity; "ridiculous anserine behavior"; "a dopey answer"; "a dopey kid"; "some fool idea about rewriting authors' books" | ||
| dopy, dopey, foolish, goosey, goosy, gooselike, jerky | ||
| stupid lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity | ||
| colloquialism a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech | ||
| anserine - of or resembling a goose | ||
| zoological science, zoology the branch of biology that studies animals | ||
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Wiktionary 
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- anserine (a.)
Pertaining to, or resembling, a goose, or the skin of a goose. - anserine (a.)
Pertaining to the Anseres.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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anserine
an′sėr-īn, or -in, adj. relating to the goose or goose-tribe: stupid, silly. [L. anserinus, anser.]
