WILD DOG

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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:

Nouns denoting animals

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)

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)