Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • A family of digitigrade carnivorous mammals, of the order Feræ, suborder Fissipedia, and series Cynoidea; the dog tribe, Canina, or canine quadrupeds, such as dogs, wolves, and foxes.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun a natural family of doglike mammals including the domestic dogs, wolves, jackals, foxes, hyenas, and coyotes.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun dogs; wolves; jackals; foxes

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Examples

  • It usually refers to sentient beings, while the rest is described with "canidae".

    Kynoid Cliff Pickover 2006

  • It usually refers to sentient beings, while the rest is described with "canidae".

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  • Dogs canidae are also obligate carnivores but are specialized for pack hunting.

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  • We need to know if you knew the cruelty involved in shooting wolves from the air before you offered that $150 bounty for dead monogamous wolf fathers and mothers (we hear you're a cat person, but I think shooting canidae lupi is going too far, even for a cat person).

    Jane Smiley: Palin In Purdah 2008

  • In its internal anatomy, digestive as well as generative, the hyaena is nearer to the cat than the dog, but it possesses the _caecum_, or blind gut, which is so large in the canidae, small in the felines, and totally absent in the bears.

    Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

  • Red Wolves, scientific name Canis rufus, belong to the dog family, canidae.

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  • PR. com) -- Canidae Pet Foods, Inc. (www. canidae.com), a manufacturer of all natural holistic pet foods that are fed and recommended by thousands of certified breeders and rescue organizations throughout North America, will attend the 5th annual West Michigan Pet Expo on April 24-25, 2010 at the Deltaplex Arena and Conference Center in Grand Rapids,

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