vipérine
French, noun/vi.pe.ʁin/
vipérine is spelled V-I-P-É-R-I-N-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 24 million words in written French, the 157,622nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vipérine is a French feminine noun meaning “any plant of genus Echium” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a feminine singular of vipérin. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Espèce ou plante herbacée du genre Echium, de la famille des boraginacées”.
What does vipérine mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineany plant of genus Echium
adjective
- 1
femininefeminine singular of vipérin
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Espèce ou plante herbacée du genre Echium, de la famille des boraginacées. 2. Vipérine commune, espèce type informelle du genre Echium, à tige hérissée de petits tubercules noirs terminés par des poils rudes, et à fleurs bleues et purpurines, disposées en épis latéraux.
noun: 1. Échidnine. 2. Synonyme de couleuvre vipérine.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of vipérine
- vipérines plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce vipérine?
- /vi.pe.ʁin/
- \vi.pe.ʁin\
- [vi.pe.ʁin]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is vipérine in French?
vipérine appears about once in every 24 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).