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WILD DOG
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various undomesticated mammals of the family Canidae that are thought to resemble domestic dogs as distinguished from jackals or wolves
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("wild dog" is a kind of...):
canid; canine (any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wild dog"):
Canis dingo; dingo; warragal; warrigal (wolflike yellowish-brown wild dog of Australia)
Cuon alpinus; dhole (fierce wild dog of the forests of central and southeast Asia that hunts in packs)
crab-eating dog; crab-eating fox; Dusicyon cancrivorus (wild dog of northern South America)
Nyctereutes procyonides; raccoon dog (small wild dog of eastern Asia having facial markings like those of a raccoon)
African hunting dog; Cape hunting dog; hyena dog; Lycaon pictus (a powerful doglike mammal of southern and eastern Africa that hunts in large packs; now rare in settled area)
Holonyms ("wild dog" is a member of...):
Canidae; family Canidae (dogs; wolves; jackals; foxes)
