Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The native name of the Cyon primævus, the wild dog of Nepâl and northern India, supposed by some to be the original type of the dog tribe.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) The wild dog of northern India (Cuon primævus), supposed by some to be an ancestral species of the domestic dog.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun zoology The wild dog of northern India (Cuon primaevus, now Cuon alpinus); the dhole.

Etymologies

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Native name.

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