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caninoids

caninoids is the plural of caninoid.

Meaning of caninoid

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

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Questions about caninoids

What is caninoids the plural of?
Caninoids is the plural of caninoid.

Words near caninoids in the dictionary

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

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