canine

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: ca=nine

CIDE DICTIONARY

canine, a. [L. caninus, fr. canis dog: cf. F. canin. See Hound.].

•  Of or pertaining to the family Canidæ, or dogs and wolves; having the nature or qualities of a dog; like that or those of a dog.  [1913 Webster]
•  Of or pertaining to the pointed tooth on each side the incisors.  [1913 Webster]

Canine appetite, a morbidly voracious appetite; bulimia. -- Canine letter, the letter r. See R. -- Canine madness, hydrophobia. -- Canine tooth, a tooth situated between the incisor and bicuspid teeth, so called because well developed in dogs; usually, the third tooth from the front on each side of each jaw; an eyetooth, or the corresponding tooth in the lower jaw.

canine, n. 

 A canine tooth.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

canine, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 of a dog or dogs.
2 of or belonging to the family Canidae, including dogs, wolves, foxes, etc.
--n.
1 a dog.
2 (in full canine tooth) a pointed tooth between the incisors and premolars.

Etymology

ME f. canin -ine or f. L caninus f. canis dog

THESAURUS

canine

Seeing Eye dog, amphibian, aquatic, baby tooth, bandog, bicuspid, biped, bitch, bowwow, bucktooth, cannibal, carnivore, cosmopolite, crown, cuspid, cutter, deciduous tooth, dent, denticle, denticulation, dentil, dentition, dog, doggy, dogtooth, eyetooth, fancy dog, fang, feline, fore tooth, foxlike, foxy, gagtooth, gang tooth, gnawer, gold tooth, grinder, guide dog, gyp, herbivore, hound, incisor, insectivore, invertebrate, kennel, lap dog, lupine, mammal, mammalian, marsupial, marsupialian, milk tooth, molar, omnivore, pack of dogs, peg, permanent tooth, pivot tooth, pooch, premolar, primate, pup, puppy, quadruped, reptile, rodent, ruminant, scavenger, scrivello, sheep dog, show dog, sled dog, slut, snag, snaggletooth, tooth, toy dog, tush, tusk, tyke, ungulate, varmint, vermin, vertebrate, vulpine, watchdog, whelp, wisdom tooth, wolfish, working dog

ROGET THESAURUS

canine

Animal

N animal, animal kingdom, fauna, brute creation, beast, brute, creature, critter, wight, created being, creeping thing, living thing, dumb animal, dumb creature, zoophyte, mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian, fish, crustacean, shellfish, mollusk, worm, insect, arthropod, microbe, microbe, animalcule, alligator, crocodile, saurian, dinosaur (extinct), snake, serpent, viper, eft, asp, aspick, frog, toad, trout, bass, tuna, muskelunge, sailfish, sardine, mackerel, ant, mosquito, bee, honeybee, tardigrade, spider, biped, quadruped, webfoot, flocks and herds, live stock, domestic animals, wild animals, game, ferae naturae, beasts of the field, fowls of the air, denizens of the sea, black game, black grouse, blackcock, duck, grouse, plover, rail, snipe, horse, cattle, kine, ox, bull, bullock, cow, milch cow, calf, heifer, shorthorn, sheep, lamb, lambkin, ewe, ram, tup, pig, swine, boar, hog, sow, steer, stot, tag, teg, bison, buffalo, yak, zebu, dog, cat, dog, hound, pup, puppy, whelp, cur, mongrel, house dog, watch dog, sheep dog, shepherd's dog, sporting dog, fancy dog, lap dog, toy dog, bull dog, badger dog, mastiff, blood hound, grey hound, stag hound, deer hound, fox hound, otter hound, harrier, beagle, spaniel, pointer, setter, retriever, Newfoundland, water dog, water spaniel, pug, poodle, turnspit, terrier, fox terrier, Skye terrier, Dandie Dinmont, collie, feline, puss, pussy, grimalkin, gib cat, tom cat, fox, Reynard, vixen, stag, deer, hart, buck, doe, roe, caribou, coyote, elk, moose, musk ox, sambar, bird, poultry, fowl, cock, hen, chicken, chanticleer, partlet, rooster, dunghill cock, barn door fowl, feathered tribes, feathered songster, singing bird, dicky bird, canary, warbler, finch, aberdevine, cushat, cygnet, ringdove, siskin, swan, wood pigeon, vermin, varmint, pest, animal, zoological equine, bovine, vaccine, canine, feline, fishy, piscatory, piscatorial, molluscous, vermicular, gallinaceous, rasorial, solidungulate, soliped.