Definitions for canid

canid can·id

Spelling: [kan-id, key-nid]
IPA: /ˈkæn ɪd, ˈkeɪ nɪd/

Canid is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 61 anagrams from letters in canid (acdin).

Definitions for canid

noun

  1. any animal of the dog family Canidae, including the wolves, jackals, hyenas, coyotes, foxes, and domestic dogs.

Origin of canid

1885-90; New Latin Canidae, equivalent to Can(is) a genus, including the dog and wolf (Latin: dog) + -idae -id2

Examples for canid

The parasites of the wolf, jackal, and fox family (canid) have especial interest, as including those of the dog.

Indeed, no other canid that we know of has teeth so much adapted to a frugivorous diet as are those of C. fortidens.

The oldest and most central stock appears to be that of the dog family (canid).

When compared with all known members of the family of canid they betray a distinct and abnormal origin.

Domestic dogs, again, have varied more in size and in form than the whole family of canid in a state of Nature.

De Blainville ('Ostographie, canid,' p. 137) has also seen an extra molar on both sides.

Social animals are the most easily subjugated by man, and several species of canid hunt in packs.

Amongst mammals, we see it strikingly displayed in Bats, and in a lesser degree in the Felid and canid.

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