dingo

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A black fellow's dog is much the same as a dingo--in fact must have descended from the wild dog--and has the same value in his owner's eyes with or without a tail.

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  1. noun A wild dog (Canis dingo) of Australia, having a reddish-brown or yellowish-brown coat.

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  • RANGERS on Fraser Island are searching for a dingo which ripped a teenage girl's shorts and harassed a school group. —  NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
  • Rangers on Fraser Island are searching for a dingo which ripped the shorts off a teenage girl and harassed a school group. —  thedaily.com.au: Breaking News
  • RANGERS on Fraser Island are searching for a dingo which ripped the shorts off a teenage ... —  thedaily.com.au: Breaking News
  • The number of alleles in the dingo is much smaller in all cases. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • As for the dingo, or Australian wild dog, only half domesticated by the savage natives, he represents a low ancestral dog type, half wolf and half jackal, incapable of the higher canine traits, and with a suspicious, ferocious, glaring eye that betrays at once his uncivilisable tendencies Omitting these later importations, however--the modern plants, birds, and human beings--it may be fairly said that Australia is still in its secondary stage, while the rest of the world has reached the tertiary and quaternary periods. —  Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science
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