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canids

canids is the plural of canid.

Meaning of canid

Noun

canid (plural canids)

  1. Any member of the family Canidae, including canines (dogs, wolves, coyotes and jackals) and vulpines (foxes).
    • The jaw indicates the beginning of a long tradition of the interment of dogs with people, which reveals a deep attachment between some people and canids.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 189

Questions about canids

What is canids the plural of?
Canids is the plural of canid.

Words near canids in the dictionary

  1. canicular periods
  2. canicule
  3. canid
  4. canidate
  5. canidates
  6. canids
  7. caniform
  8. caniforms
  9. Caniglia
  10. Caniglias
  11. Canigou

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Adapted from Wiktionary: canids (page history and authors); canid (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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