canine

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of the canids.
  2. adjective Of, relating to, or being one of the pointed conical teeth located between the incisors and the first bicuspids.
  3. noun An animal of the family Canidae, especially a dog.
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  • Through the lobby meant facing the canine, and there was something strange and deadly about the creature. —  006 - The Red Skull
  • They're-- canine What She flushed I'm sorry; that sounded worse than I meant it. —  The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and Other Stories
  • The canine is a seeing-eye guide for Dan Kysor, a newly hired senior legislative assistant who is blind. —  AroundTheCapitol.com
  • A mixed-breed pet canine was also pulled from the smoke charged home by Firefighters. —  LAFD News & Information
  • And frankly, the little animated canine could be a lot more obtrusive -- the way the networks are pushing product these days, it wouldn't have surprised me if Bolt had been a central figure in the nightclub fire rescue on PopWatch Quote of the Day —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
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  1. Latin canīnus, from canis, dog; see kwon- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin caninus, pertaining to a dog, from canis, a dog: see Canis.
 

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