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All canine synonyms

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noun canine

  • mutt — a dog, especially a mongrel.
  • pooch — a dog.
  • pup — a young dog; puppy.
  • cur — A cur is an unfriendly dog, especially a mongrel.
  • wolf — any of several large carnivorous mammals of the genus Canis, of the dog family Canidae, especially C. lupus, usually hunting in packs, formerly common throughout the Northern Hemisphere but now chiefly restricted to the more unpopulated parts of its range.
  • chow — Food can be referred to as chow.
  • hound — Nautical. either of a pair of fore-and-aft members at the lower end of the head of a mast, for supporting the trestletrees, that support an upper mast at its heel. Compare cheek (def 12).
  • dingo — a wolflike, wild dog, Canis familiaris dingo, of Australia, having a reddish- or yellowish-brown coat.
  • fox — Free Objects for Crystallography
  • hyena — a doglike carnivore of the family Hyaenidae, of Africa, southwestern Asia, and south central Asia, having a coarse coat, a sloping back, and large teeth and feeding chiefly on carrion, often in packs.
  • coyote — A coyote is a small wolf which lives in the plains of North America.
  • dog — a domesticated canid, Canis familiaris, bred in many varieties.
  • mongrel — a dog of mixed or indeterminate breed.
  • bow-wow — an imitation of the bark of a dog
  • lobo — the gray or timber wolf of the western U.S.

adjective canine

  • doglike — similar to a dog; having the appearance, traits, etc., of a dog.
  • doggish — like a dog; canine: doggish affection.
  • doggy — a little dog or a puppy.
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