- of, like, or pertaining to

• alar - wings or winged
• alaudine - skylarks
• alliaceous - like onions or garic in taste or smell
• altricial - helpless at birth
• amygdaline - almonds
• amylaceous - starch
• anatine - ducks
• anemophilous - wind distributed pollen
• apian - bees
• apyrous - incombustable
• aquiline - eagles
• arboreal - trees or living in trees
• asinine - asses
• atavistic - reverting to ancestral or more primitive type
• azoic - without life
• balaniferous - acorn bearing
• batrachian - frogs and toads
• bombic - silkworms
• borborygmic - the sound of gas rumbling in intestines
• bovine - oxen & cows
• brachydactylic - abnormally short fingers or toes
• brumal - winter
• brumous - fog or mist
• bubaline - buffalo
• cadaveric - putrefaction
• calcareous - limestone, calcium, or lime
• cancrine - crabs
• canine - dogs
• caprifoliaceous - honeysuckle
• caprine - goats
• cartilaginous - cartilage
• cepaceous - onions
• cetacine - whales
• chelonian - turtles
• circadian - 24 hour cycles
• cnidarian - jellyfish & anenomes
• columbine - doves
• corvine - crows
• creophagous - carnivorous
• cruciferous - cabbage & mustard
• cygnine - swans
• delphinine - dolphins
• didine - dodos
• dorsicumbent - lies on one's back
• dulotic - slave-holding, like ants enslaving colonies
• eburnean - ivory
• ectomycorrhizal - symbiotic relationship with a plant
• edentulous - without teeth
• emetic - causing vomiting
• epiphytic - plants that grow on other plants
• equine - horses
• erinaceous - hedgehogs
• errhine - causing mucus
• erumpent - bursting through a surface
• eutrophic - nutrition
• farinaceous - meal
• fecund - fertile or productive
• feline - cats
• fimetic - dung
• fluminous - rivers
• folicolous - living and growing upon leaves
• formicide - ants
• fuliginous - soot or smoke
• glabrous - hairless
• gnathic - the jaw
• graveolent - stinky, fetid
• gryllic - crickets
• hederaceous - ivy
• hippuric - urine of horses or herbivorous animals
• hircine - smelly goats
• hirudine - leeches
• homarine - lobsters
• hyetal - rainy regions
• ignivomous - vomiting fire
• impennate - flightless or penguins
• infundibular - funnel-shaped
• ingressive - the sound of inhaling
• inquiline - dwells with another animal
• insectivorous - bug eaters
• intumescent - swelling
• jumentous - smelling like horse urine
• keratose - horny
• lacustrine - lakes
• lampyridine - glow worms & fireflies
• leonine - lions
• lepidopterous - butterflies
• leporine - hares
• leucous - albinistic
• lignescent - partly woody
• limacine - slugs
• limicolous - living in the mud
• lipostomatous - mouthless
• luminescent - giving off light
• lupine - wolves
• lupuline - hops
• malacozoic - molluscan life
• masticory - chewing
• megapterine - humpback whales
• meleagrine - turkeys
• mephitic - noxious, stinky
• muticous - pointless, blunt
• nariform - like a nostril
• natory - swimming
• nepid - water scorpions
• nidicolous - remaing in a nest long after hatched
• nidorous - the smell of roast meat
• noctiflorus - blooming at night
• noctiluca - phosphorescent
• nyctalopic - night blindness
• nyctinastic - petals close at night
• ombrophilous - plants tolerant of wet conditions
• ombrophobus - water shedding plants
• omphacine - excretions from or unripe fruit
• oscine - singing birds
• ossivorous - bone eating
• otarine - eared seals
• ovine - sheep
• palamate - web-footed
• palatoglossal - tongue
• palinal - backward jaw motion
• panivorous - bread eating
• papilionaceous - butterfly-shaped
• pardine - leopard or spotted
• pavonine - peacocks
• pelagic - open sea or ocean
• peristeronic - pigeons
• petechilate - spotted
• phocine - seals
• piscatorial/ piscine - fish
• pithecoid - anthropoid apes
• pluvial - rain
• poculiform - cup shaped
• polyphageous - eats many types of food
• pomaceous - apples
• porcine - pigs & swine
• psittacine - parrots
• puicine - fleas
• purpuriparous - producing purple secretion
• quercine - oaks
• rangiferine - reindeer
• ranine - frogs
• raptorial - feeding on birds
• ratite - flightless birds
• rostrate - beak or beak-like part
• ruminant - cud chewers
• rupestrian - occurring on rocks
• saproprytic - plants living on dead/ decaying organic matter
• scatophagous - shit-eating
• sciurine - squirrels
• scotophil - growing best in darkness
• sematic - warning signs like the color of poisonous snakes
• serotinous - late in developing
• setaceous - bristled
• simian - apes
• squaliform - resembles shark
• strabismic - squinting
• sylvan - forests
• synanthropic - wild species living near and benefit from humans
• taurine - bulls
• terricolous - living in or on the ground
• thalassic - smaller or inland seas
• thanatotic - feigning death
• theriomorphic - having the form of an animal
• trochiline - hummingbirds
• ungulate - hooved
• ursine - bears
• vellutinous - velvety covering of short, dense, silky, upright hair
• vermiform - worm shaped
• vespine - wasps
• vestigial - organ or tissue, having little or no utility
• viminal - twigs
• virulent - super-poisonous
• viticular - calves
• viviparous - bearing live young
• vomeronasal - near the vomer bone between nose and mouth
• vulpine - foxes
• vulturine - vultures
• xenogamous - cross fertilization
• xeromorphic - desert plants storing water
• zoonotic - diseases passed from animals to people
• zymotic - fermentation