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canine (adjective)
Of or relating to dogs: "There is no disputing the canine loyalty of people's dogs."
"Some organizations provide canine therapy with old people and even children when they take dogs for friendly visits."
1. A dog, a coyote, or a wolf: "The police are known to call their drug-sniffing canines, or dogs, the K-9 unit."
2. One of four pointed conical teeth: "There are normally two-pointed canine teeth in the upper jaw and two in the lower jaw."
2. One of four pointed conical teeth: "There are normally two-pointed canine teeth in the upper jaw and two in the lower jaw."
canine: dogs; teeth
1. Similar to dogs; of, belonging to, or characteristic of, a dog; having the nature or qualities of a dog; such as, of appetite, hunger, etc.: voracious, greedy, as that of a dog (according to the Oxford English Dictionary)
2. Any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles.
3. Of, relating to, or being one of the pointed conical teeth located between the incisors and the first bicuspids.
4. One of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars.
2. Any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles.
3. Of, relating to, or being one of the pointed conical teeth located between the incisors and the first bicuspids.
4. One of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars.
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“canine”
canine distemper
A viral disease of young dogs characterized by high fever and respiratory inflammation.
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canine herpesvirus
A herpesvirus causing an upper respiratory tract infection which becomes generalized in puppies under one week of age, terminating invariably in death. Infection is milder in older puppies and asymptomatic in adult dogs while the latter may become convalescent viral shedders.
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