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FAMILY CANIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Canidae mean? 

FAMILY CANIDAE (noun)
  The noun FAMILY CANIDAE has 1 sense:

1. dogs; wolves; jackals; foxesplay

  Familiarity information: FAMILY CANIDAE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FAMILY CANIDAE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Dogs; wolves; jackals; foxes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Canidae; family Canidae

Hypernyms ("family Canidae" is a kind of...):

mammal family (a family of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "family Canidae"):

canid; canine (any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles)

Canis; genus Canis (type genus of the Canidae: domestic and wild dogs; wolves; jackals)

wild dog (any of various undomesticated mammals of the family Canidae that are thought to resemble domestic dogs as distinguished from jackals or wolves)

Cuon; Cyon; genus Cuon; genus Cyon (Asiatic wild dog)

Dusicyon; genus Dusicyon (crab-eating dog)

genus Nyctereutes; Nyctereutes (raccoon dogs)

genus Lycaeon; Lycaeon (African hunting dog)

genus Vulpes; Vulpes (foxes)

Alopex; genus Alopex (arctic foxes)

genus Urocyon; Urocyon (grey foxes)

Holonyms ("family Canidae" is a member of...):

Carnivora; order Carnivora (cats; lions; tigers; panthers; dogs; wolves; jackals; bears; raccoons; skunks; and members of the suborder Pinnipedia)


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