Of, relating to, or resembling a giraffe or the giraffe family in structure or characteristics.
From 'giraffa' combined with the Latin suffix '-ine' (meaning 'of or pertaining to'), following the pattern of terms like 'canine' or 'equine' for animal relationships.
Scientific descriptive adjectives like this—'giraffine,' 'leonine,' 'ursine'—are holdovers from when naturalists used Latin-derived terms to sound authoritative, and they're still used today in formal zoological writing.
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