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cynomorphic

cynomorphic adjective: doglike.

Adjective

cynomorphic (comparative more cynomorphic, superlative most cynomorphic)

  1. doglike
    • The company of these excellent animals in my childhood gave a kind of cynomorphic twist to my philosophy and an enjoyment of animal society...1946, Blackwood's magazine
    • It was especially the unburied dead whose souls were considered to be cynomorphic in the ancient world: Lilja, Dogs, p. 35.1991, David Gordon White, Myths of the dog-man

Forms of cynomorphic

comparativemore cynomorphic
superlativemost cynomorphic

Origin of cynomorphic

From cyno- + -morphic.

Questions about cynomorphic

What does cynomorphic mean?
Cynomorphic means doglike.
What part of speech is cynomorphic?
Cynomorphic is an adjective.

Words near cynomorphic in the dictionary

  1. cynomania
  2. cynomolgous
  3. cynomolgus
  4. cynomolguses
  5. cynomorph
  6. cynomorphic
  7. cynomorphism
  8. cynomorphs
  9. Cynon
  10. cynophagia
  11. cynophagic

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