I snapped the thread on my canine.
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Canine
//ˈkeɪnaɪn//
Synonyms for "canine" (103 found)
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Closest matches (21)
Strong matches (31)
Related words (51)
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7 entriesrelated to
31 entriesShowing 16 of 31 words.
Translations
73 translations across 36 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- κύνειος adj (pertaining to dogs)
Arabic
1 entries- كَلْبِيّ adj (pertaining to dogs)
Armenian
2 entries- շան adj (pertaining to dogs)
- շնային adj (pertaining to dogs)
Belarusian
3 entries- псі adj (pertaining to dogs)
- псі́ны adj (pertaining to dogs)
- саба́чы adj (pertaining to dogs)
Bulgarian
1 entries- ку́чешки adj (pertaining to dogs)
Catalan
1 entries- caní adj (pertaining to dogs)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 狗的 adj (pertaining to dogs)
Czech
1 entries- psí adj (pertaining to dogs)
Dutch
2 entries- hondachtig adj (dog-like)
- honds adj (pertaining to dogs)
Esperanto
1 entries- hunda adj (pertaining to dogs)
Faroese
1 entries- hunda adj (pertaining to dogs)
Finnish
3 entries- koira adj (pertaining to dogs)
- koiramainen adj (dog-like)
- koiraeläin noun (dog or wolf)
French
1 entries- canin adj (pertaining to dogs)
German
4 entries- Hunde adj (pertaining to dogs)
- Hunds adj (pertaining to dogs)
- hundeartig adj (pertaining to dogs)
- hundeartig adj (dog-like)
Greek
4 entries- κυνικός adj (pertaining to dogs)
- κυνικός adj (dog-like)
- κυνοειδής adj (pertaining to dogs)
- σκυλίσιος adj (pertaining to dogs)
Hindi
1 entries- श्वानीय adj (pertaining to dogs)
Irish
1 entries- cainíneach adj (pertaining to dogs)
Italian
3 entries- cagnesco adj (dog-like)
- canino adj (pertaining to dogs)
- canino adj (dog-like)
Japanese
1 entries- イヌの adj (pertaining to dogs)
Korean
1 entries- 개의 adj (pertaining to dogs)
Latin
2 entries- canīnus adj (pertaining to dogs)
- canis noun (dog or wolf)
Macedonian
1 entries- кучешки adj (pertaining to dogs)
Malay
3 entries- anjing adj (pertaining to dogs)
- kanin adj (pertaining to dogs)
- kanin noun (dog or wolf)
Polish
1 entries- psi adj (pertaining to dogs)
Portuguese
4 entries- canina adj (pertaining to dogs)
- canina adj (dog-like)
- caninas adj (pertaining to dogs)
- caninas adj (dog-like)
Punjabi
1 entries- ਕੁੱਤਾ ਵਰਗਾ adj (dog-like)
Romanian
1 entries- canin adj (pertaining to dogs)
Russian
2 entries- пси́ный adj (pertaining to dogs)
- соба́чий adj (pertaining to dogs)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- pȁsjī adj (pertaining to dogs)
- па̏сјӣ adj (pertaining to dogs)
Slovak
2 entries- psí adj (pertaining to dogs)
- psí adj (dog-like)
Slovene
1 entries- pasji adj (pertaining to dogs)
Spanish
3 entries- canino adj (pertaining to dogs)
- canino adj (dog-like)
- perruno adj (dog-like)
Ukrainian
4 entries- пе́ський adj (pertaining to dogs)
- пе́сячий adj (pertaining to dogs)
- пси́ний adj (pertaining to dogs)
- пся́чий adj (pertaining to dogs)
Volapük
1 entries- dogik adj (pertaining to dogs)
Welsh
2 entries- cynaidd adj (pertaining to dogs)
- cynol adj (pertaining to dogs)
Yiddish
1 entries- הינטיש adj (pertaining to dogs)
Sample sentences
21 total sentences available.
Lieutenant Dan Anderson sent a canine team to the crime scene.
Source: tatoeba (4009212)
This is a canine tooth.
Source: tatoeba (4386106)
The dog's laboured breathing and glazing eye showed that it was not far from its end. Indeed, its snow-white muzzle proclaimed that it had already exceeded the usual term of canine existence.
Source: tatoeba (6310151)
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