Canine
['keɪnaɪn;'kæ-] or ['kenaɪn]
Definition
(noun.) any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles.
(noun.) one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars.
(adj.) of or relating to or characteristic of members of the family Canidae .
(adj.) of or relating to a pointed conical tooth .
Inputed by Hubert--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to the family Canidae, or dogs and wolves; having the nature or qualities of a dog; like that or those of a dog.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the pointed tooth on each side the incisors.
(n.) A canine tooth.
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Definition
adj. like or pertaining to the dog.—Canine appetite an inordinate appetite; Canine letter = R; Canine teeth the four sharp-pointed tearing teeth in most mammals one on each side of the upper and lower jaw between the incisors or cutting teeth and the molars or grinders.
Edited by Jacqueline
Examples
- It cost some exercise of the white truncheon, well seconded by the exertions of the domestics, to silence this canine clamour. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The premises of Mrs Boffin's late father (Canine Provision Trade), you look down into, as if they was your own. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I have a canine hunger. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- As to the Piltdown jaw-bone, the best study of it is that by Smith Woodward, who first described it and the canine found later. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Two canine animals, in a time of dearth, may be truly said to struggle with each other which shall get food and live. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Savages now sometimes cross their dogs with wild canine animals, to improve the breed, and they formerly did so, as is attested by passages in Pliny. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- He was an honest, phlegmatic, stupid, but stubborn canine character. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Central incisors 5 to 8 months Lateral incisors 7 to 10 months First molars 12 to 16 months Canines 15 to 20 months Second molars 20 to 36 months _Permanent Teeth. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- But this resemblance is confined to general appearance, as in the prominence of the canines, and in the cutting shape of the molar teeth. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Against the long canines of the ape was pitted the thin blade of the man's knife. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
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