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caninoid

caninoid adjective: having the appearance or characteristics of a canine (canid).

Adjective

caninoid (comparative more caninoid, superlative most caninoid)

  1. Having the appearance or characteristics of a canine (canid).
    • "The vast underground garage is patrolled by another species of humanoid (caninoid?), these tooled to look like pet dogs but functioning as police vehicles."1989 September 23, Dick Roraback, “Beverly Hills Diamond Jubilee to End With Drawings, Dining”, in Los Angeles Times
  2. Having the appearance or characteristics of a canine tooth.
    • Lower jaw with several rows at anterior, outer row enlarged, posterior teeth larger but not caninoid. Upper jaw with several rows at anterior, less rows than lower jaw, outer row larger but not caninoid. No canines present.n.d. "Tigrigobius saucrus" Goby Net (accessed 2 Nov 2019)

Noun

caninoid (plural caninoids)

  1. A being having the appearance or characteristics of a canine (canid).
    • "A local company (Boston Dynamics) has produced a family of robots who have become media stars: ...; SpotMini a "caninoid" can open doors, descend stairs backwards, and run autonomously in mixed human robot packs."2018 Vyacheslav Kharchienko et al, eds, Dependable IoT for Human and Industry: Modeling, Architecting, Implementation, River Publishers, 2018, page 38.
  2. A tooth having the appearance or characteristics of a canine tooth.
    • "Probably the terminal, wide, oblique mouth, usually armed with enlarged teeth or caninoids or large canines of the Otalithinae, indicates the hunting of prey in superficial water,..."1936, Max Weber, L.F. de Beaufort, The Fishes of the Indo-Australian Archipelago, volume VII, E.J. Brill, pages 483–4

Forms of caninoid

Adjective
comparativemore caninoid
superlativemost caninoid
Noun
pluralcaninoids

Origin of caninoid

From canine + -oid.

Questions about caninoid

What does caninoid mean?
Caninoid means having the appearance or characteristics of a canine (canid).
What part of speech is caninoid?
Caninoid can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near caninoid in the dictionary

  1. caninize
  2. caninized
  3. caninizes
  4. caninizing
  5. Canino
  6. caninoid
  7. caninoids
  8. caninophile
  9. caninophiles
  10. Caninos
  11. caninus

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