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noun any plant of the genus Lupinus; bearing erect spikes of usually purplish-blue flowers
adjective of or relating to or characteristic of wolves
originBorrowed from Latin lupīnus, from lupus (“wolf”) + -īnus (“pertaining to”). Doublet of lupin and piecewise doublet of wolven, Latin lupus being a cognate of wolf and -ine being a doublet of -en.
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