Definitions for dhole

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Spelling: [dohl]
IPA: /doʊl/

Dhole is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 59 anagrams from letters in dhole (dehlo).

Definitions for dhole

noun

  1. a wild Asian dog, Cuon alpinus, that hunts in packs: an endangered species.

Origin of dhole

1827; said to be the indigenous name of the animal, though apparently not attested in Indo-Aryan or Dravidian languages

Examples for dhole

I will play with the dhole at twilight, for the dhole hunts best by day.

The really wild dogs of India,—the dhole,—hunt by nose, and in packs.

But for ye, Free People, my word is that ye go north and eat but little for a while till the dhole are gone.

"The dhole do not turn and their throats are hot," said Kaa.

Sometimes it is called the dhole, sometimes the kholsun, and sometimes the buansuah.

I will give no Word; but what is in thy stomach to do when the dhole come?

But he knew, for Hathi had told him, what a terrible thing a dhole hunting-pack was.

"All Jungles are our Jungle," was the reply, and the dhole that gave it bared his white teeth.

"Thou dost not know the dhole, man with a wolf's tongue," said Won-tolla.

"Chil does not leave a dead ox, nor the dhole the blood-trail," said Kaa.

Word Value for dhole
Scrable

9

Words with friends

9

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