equine

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin equīnus (“of or pertaining to horses”).

adj

  1. Of or relating to a horse or horses.
    Four years after the publication of the Modernisation Report, and two years after the very first 'Pilot Scheme' diesels were introduced, BR finally said goodbye to a form of traction even older than the steam locomotive. This was the horse... and the line that used equine power was older than the Liverpool & Manchester [Railway]. January 11 2023, Richard Foster, “British Rail's weirdest railways...: Nantlle Railway”, in RAIL, number 974, page 51
  2. Of or relating to any member or members of the genus Equus.

noun

  1. Any horse or horse-like animal, especially one of the genus Equus.

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