JACKAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jackal mean? 

• JACKAL (noun)
  The noun JACKAL has 1 sense:

1. Old World nocturnal canine mammal closely related to the dog; smaller than a wolf; sometimes hunts in a pack but usually singly or as a member of a pair

  Familiarity information: JACKAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JACKAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Old World nocturnal canine mammal closely related to the dog; smaller than a wolf; sometimes hunts in a pack but usually singly or as a member of a pair

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Canis aureus; jackal

Hypernyms ("jackal" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("jackal" is a member of...):

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

 Context examples 

And so those two brave-hearted fellows made their way amidst the yelping roughs, like two wounded lions amidst a pack of wolves and jackals.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I gives the wolves and the jackals and the hyenas in all our section their tea afore I begins to arsk them questions.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Was it a fierce tiger of crime, which could only be taken fighting hard with flashing fang and claw, or would it prove to be some skulking jackal, dangerous only to the weak and unguarded?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Your girls that you all love are mine already; and through them you and others shall yet be mine—my creatures, to do my bidding and to be my jackals when I want to feed.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)