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CANINE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles
Synonyms:
canid; canine
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("canine" is a kind of...):
carnivore (a terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal)
Meronyms (parts of "canine"):
paw (a clawed foot of an animal especially a quadruped)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "canine"):
bitch (female of any member of the dog family)
Canis familiaris; dog; domestic dog (a member of the genus Canis (probably descended from the common wolf) that has been domesticated by man since prehistoric times; occurs in many breeds)
wolf (any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs)
Canis aureus; jackal (Old World nocturnal canine mammal closely related to the dog; smaller than a wolf; sometimes hunts in a pack but usually singly or as a member of a pair)
wild dog (any of various undomesticated mammals of the family Canidae that are thought to resemble domestic dogs as distinguished from jackals or wolves)
hyaena; hyena (doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion)
fox (alert carnivorous mammal with pointed muzzle and ears and a bushy tail; most are predators that do not hunt in packs)
Holonyms ("canine" is a member of...):
Canidae; family Canidae (dogs; wolves; jackals; foxes)
Derivation:
canine (of or relating to or characteristic of members of the family Canidae)
Sense 2
Meaning:
One of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars
Synonyms:
canine; canine tooth; cuspid; dogtooth; eye tooth; eyetooth
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("canine" is a kind of...):
tooth (hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "canine"):
fang (canine tooth of a carnivorous animal; used to seize and tear its prey)
Derivation:
canine (of or relating to a pointed conical tooth)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to or characteristic of members of the family Canidae
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Domain category:
zoological science; zoology (the branch of biology that studies animals)
Pertainym:
Canidae (dogs; wolves; jackals; foxes)
Derivation:
canine (any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of or relating to a pointed conical tooth
Synonyms:
canine; laniary
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
canine (one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars)
Derivation:
canine (one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars)
Context examples:
C. acetobutylicum is found commonly in soil, lake sediment, well water, and bovine, canine, and human feces.
(Clostridium acetobutylicum, NCI Thesaurus)
B. canis is found in canines where it can cause abortions and causes brucellosis in humans.
(Brucella canis, NCI Thesaurus)
It is allowed, that senates and great councils are often troubled with redundant, ebullient, and other peccant humours; with many diseases of the head, and more of the heart; with strong convulsions, with grievous contractions of the nerves and sinews in both hands, but especially the right; with spleen, flatus, vertigos, and deliriums; with scrofulous tumours, full of fetid purulent matter; with sour frothy ructations: with canine appetites, and crudeness of digestion, besides many others, needless to mention.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
As the creature felt me grow limp in his grasp, two white canines gleamed for a moment at each side of the vile mouth, and the grip tightened still more upon my chin, forcing it always upwards and back.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But since Mr. Rochester's visit it seemed spellbound: all the night I heard but three sounds at three long intervals,—a step creak, a momentary renewal of the snarling, canine noise, and a deep human groan.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Moriarty himself is enough to make any letter illustrious, and here is Morgan the poisoner, and Merridew of abominable memory, and Mathews, who knocked out my left canine in the waiting-room at Charing Cross, and, finally, here is our friend of to-night.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Count smiled, and as his lips ran back over his gums, the long, sharp, canine teeth showed out strangely; he answered:—Because your peasant is at heart a coward and a fool!
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The eyes, which were under thick and heavy brows, were bestial and ferocious, and as it opened its mouth to snarl what sounded like a curse at me I observed that it had curved, sharp canine teeth.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In particular, by some trick of the light, the canine teeth looked longer and sharper than the rest.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
They were all of the thinnest foreign post, and looking at them, then at him, and noticing his quiet smile, with the sharp, canine teeth lying over the red underlip, I understood as well as if he had spoken that I should be careful what I wrote, for he would be able to read it.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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