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The use of Latinate words in the sciences gives us pairs with a native Germanic noun and a Latinate adjective:
Animals
ant avian
bee feminine
bird canine
crow formic
fish testudinal
butterfly corvine
worm ursine
tortoise (or turtle) feline
cat vermian
hare apian
dog gallinaceous
deer caprine
fox papilionaceous
wolf masculine
goat bovine
sheep leporine
horse piscine
chicken cetacean
cattle vulpine
pig cervine
whale simian
ape human or hominid
bear ovine
man porcine
gender specific: man lupine
woman equine
Sociology
Physiology
head aural
body plantar
ear pilar
tooth cervical
tongue mental
lips ocular or visual
neck capital
finger pedal
hand brachial
arm digital
foot sanguine
sole of the foot ungual
eye corporal
mouth renal
chest cerebral
brain oral
mind dental
nail pulmonary
hair labial
lung pectoral
kidney lingual
blood manual
Astronomy
moon solar
sun stellar
earth lunar
star terrestrial
others:
edge marginal
fire urban
water aquatic
wind domestic
ice arboreal
boat glacial
house paludal
door portal
town igneous
sight military
tree sartorial
marsh vental
king regal
fighter visual
clothes naval