Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various widely distributed carnivorous mammals of the family Canidae, which includes the foxes, wolves, dogs, jackals, and coyotes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A carnivorous mammal of the family Canidæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun any doglike animal of the family
canidae .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any member of the family
Canidae , includingdogs ,wolves ,foxes ,coyotes andjackals .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Count me among the few not captivated by Anderson's animated adaptation of Roald Dahl's book; I found it as stilted and twee as the title canid's tippy-toe gait.
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Steve-- if you go into my archives you will find some material on the New England wild canid, which is rather like the red wolf but apparently a bit different genetically.
"Genetic Pollution"? 2005
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Whatta Good Dog, I have always felt having a dog about is essential for anyone who lives in a rural area, I mean a real Dog sized dog, not like an animated dustmop or some other gerbil sized canid.
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Allaby took 45 samples from the wounds of the deer carcasses with the aim of testing specifically for DNA from the saliva of any canid (for instance dog or fox) or felid (cat) species which had killed or scavenged from the deer.
DNA tests on mauled deer give wild cat theorists paws for thought 2012
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Whatta Good Dog, I have always felt having a dog about is essential for anyone who lives in a rural area, I mean a real Dog sized dog, not like an animated dustmop or some other gerbil sized canid.
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In this study, I compare patterns of intracranial allometry and morphologic diversity between the domestic dog and wild canid species.
"Intraspecific macroevolution" within domestic dog breeds - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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We use geometric morphometrics to quantify the diversity of skull shape in 106 breeds of domestic dog, in three wild canid species, and across the order Carnivora.
"Intraspecific macroevolution" within domestic dog breeds - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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Even now, watching this seventy-pound lump of brown and white canid sprawled across the couch, farting in his sleep (he just can't help ruining the planet!)
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Even now, watching this seventy-pound lump of brown and white canid sprawled across the couch, farting in his sleep (he just can't help ruining the planet!)
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Unlike any other North American canid, the kit fox uses burrows year round.
lampbane commented on the word canid
Penny Arcade (5/21/07):
"I dreamed our world had been conquered by malevolent, spacefaring dog-men, known as the Canid."
December 3, 2007