Canid

//ˈkeɪnəd// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any member of the family Canidae, including canines (dogs, wolves, coyotes and jackals) and vulpines (foxes).

    "The jaw indicates the beginning of a long tradition of the interment of dogs with people, which reveals a deep attachment between some people and canids."

  2. 2
    any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles wordnet

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caninecaninedog

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"The dingo has always been a wild canid, which developed as the wolf of Australia."

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