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Wild dog

noun

Any of various undomesticated mammals of the family Canidae that are thought to resemble domestic dogs as distinguished from jackals or wolves.

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"Wild dog" Quotes from Famous Books

... did in those next few minutes. Yet, the harder I stared the clearer appeared the amazing and monstrous apparition. For, after all, it was Sangree—and yet it was not Sangree. It was the head and face of an animal, and yet it was the face of Sangree: the face of a wild dog, a wolf, and yet his face. The eyes were sharper, narrower, more fiery, yet they were his eyes—his eyes run wild; the teeth were longer, whiter, more pointed—yet they were his teeth, his teeth grown cruel; the expression was flaming, terrible, exultant—yet it was his expression carried to ...

— Three More John Silence Stories • Algernon Blackwood

... have many of the characteristics of the wild, prehistoric animal, among them the full, upright ears of the wild dog which are such a great help to it. She was a fine, alert, upstanding dog, hardy, fierce, and literally untiring, of a tawny light brown like a lioness, about the same size and somewhat of the type of the smooth-coated collie, broad of chest and with ...

— The Dream Doctor • Arthur B. Reeve

Words linked to "Wild dog" : hyena dog, crab-eating fox, Cuon alpinus, Canis dingo, Lycaon pictus, Cape hunting dog, dingo, Nyctereutes procyonides, crab-eating dog, warragal, canine, Dusicyon cancrivorus, warrigal, canid, African hunting dog, raccoon dog, Canidae, family Canidae, dhole