What's an adjective for "pertaining to donkeys"?

asinine : of, relating to, or resembling an ass

(also extremely or utterly foolish), M-W.

In perspective:

aquiline - eagle
asinine - donkey
bovine - cattle
cancrine - crab
canine - dog
cervine - deer
corvine - crow
equine - horse
elapine - snake
elaphine - red deer
feline - cat
hircine - goat
leonine - lion
leporine - rabbit, hare
lupine - wolf
murine - rodent
pavonine - peacock
piscine - fish
porcine - pig
rusine - deer
serpentine - snake
ursine - bear
vulpine - fox

(source (edited): input by beatlesfanatic123456 to this post)


As other answers have pointed out, asinine is an adjective relating to donkeys. In addition, donkeys are also equine. Equine means relating to the horse family, which happens to include donkeys as well as asses and zebras.

The small contribution of this answer here is to provide a list of animals and corresponding animal adjectives with the -ine suffix. This has been partially gleaned from this page at tinyonline.co.uk. It's alphabetical, so you'll need to scroll to the animal you're interested in:

A

ant formicine, myrmecine

anteater myrmecophagine

antelope antilopine

armadillo tolypeutine

ass asinine

B

badger meline, musteline

barracuda percesocine

basilisk lizard basilicine

bat noctilionine, pteropine

bear ursine

bird avine, volucrine

bird of prey accipitrine

bison bisontine

bull taurine

butterfly pieridine, pierine

buzzard cathartine, pyrrhuloxine

C

calf vituline

camel cameline

carp cyprine

cat feline

chicken galline

coral coralline

cormorant phalacrocoracine

cow bovine vaccine

crab cancrine

crocodile crocodiline

crow corvine

cuckoo cuculine

D

deer cervine

dodo didine

dog canine

dolphin delphine

domestic fowl galline

dormouse myoxine

dove columbine

dragon draconine

E

eagle aquiline

earthworm lumbricine

elephant elephantine

ermine musteline

F

fish piscine

flea pulicine

fox vulpine

frog ranine

fur seal otarine

G

gerbil cricetine

giant ground sloth megatherine

gibbon hylobatine

giraffe giraffine

H

hamster cricetine

hare leporine

hawk accipitrine, falconine

hippopotamus hippopotamine

horse caballine, equine

human hominine

hummingbird trochilidine, trochiline

humpback whale megapterine

I

ibis ibidine

J

jay garruline

K

kangaroo macropine, macropodine

kea nestorine

kingfisher dacelonine, halcyonine

kite milvine

L

lemming microtine

lemur lemurine

leopard pardine

limpet patelline

lion leonine

lizard lacertine

lobster homarine

louse pediculine

lynx lyncine

M

macaw psittacine

mamba elapine

manatee manatine

mite acarine

mockingbird mimine

mole talpine

mongoose herpestine, viverrine

moose cervine

mosquito aedine, anopheline, culicine

mouse murine, musine

musk ox ovibovine

N

nuthatch sittine

O

octopus octopine

opposum didelphine

oriole icterine

ostrich struthionine

otter lutrine, musteline

owl strigine

ox bovine, taurine

oyster ostracine

P

panther pantherine

parrot psittacine

partridge perdicine

peacock pavonine

perch percine

pheasant phasianine

pig porcine, suilline

pigeon pullastrine

polecat musteline

porcupine hystricine

porpoise phocaenine

python pythonine

Q

quail coturnine

R

rabbit leporine

rat murine

rattlesnake crotaline

rhinoceros ceratorhine, rhinerocerine

robin turdine

rodent glirine

S

salamander salamandrine

sea horse hippocampine

sea lion otarine

seal phocine

serpent serpentine

sheep ovine

shrew soricine

silkworm bombycine

skunk mephitine, musteline

skylark alaudine

snake anguilline, anguine, colubrine, serpentine, viperine

sparrow emberizine, passerine

sphinx sphingine, sphinxine

squirrel sciurine

starling sturnine

swan cygnine

T

termite termitine

tick acarine

tiger tigrine

titmouse parine, penduline

toad bufotenine

tortoise testudine

turkey meleagrine

V

viper viperine

vole microtine

vulture cathartine, vulturine

W

walrus odobenine

wasp vespine

weasel musteline

wolf lupine

wren troglodytine

Z

zebra equine hippotigrine, zebrine

If you want to see a lot of other lists which have snaffled lots of info from various dictionaries, you could try any of these:

http://www.dnafrequencies.com/dp/terms.shtml

http://www.davekoelle.com/animal_terms.html

https://elisabethaskin.wordpress.com/2011/08/10/27/

http://www273.pair.com/med/words/animal_adjectives.htm

http://www.dnafrequencies.com/dp/terms.shtml