wild dog
Noun
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Any of various undomesticated mammals of the family Canidae that are thought to resemble domestic dogs as distinguished from jackals or wolves (synset 102117987)
is a type of: canid, canine - any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzlessubtypes:
- 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
belongs to: canidae, family canidae - dogs; wolves; jackals; foxes
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