Canid
any animal of the dog family Canidae, including the wolves, jackals, hyenas, coyotes, foxes, and domestic dogs.
Historical Examples
Parasites T. Spencer Cobbold
The Philosophy of Natural Theology William Jackson
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin
A New Doglike Carnivore, Genus Cynarctus, From the Clarendonian, Pliocene, of Texas E. Raymond Hall
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Charles Darwin
Zoology: The Science of Animal Life Ernest Ingersoll
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin
n.
canid
(kān’ĭd, kā’nĭd)
Any of various carnivorous mammals of the family Canidae, which includes the dogs, wolves, foxes, coyotes, and jackals.
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