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supercanine

supercanine adjective: transcending or beyond what is typically canine.

Adjective

supercanine (not comparable)

  1. Transcending or beyond what is typically canine.
    • He feels, and naturally, too, that his almost supercanine efforts have been wasted.1892, Stella Gilman, That Dakota Girl, page 92
    • I needed to think of the steroids as superhuman, supercanine. There could be no surgery for her again on her spine. The steroids had to be powerful. They had to work.2016, Steven Rowley, Lily and the Octopus, page 143

Origin of supercanine

From super- + canine.

Questions about supercanine

What does supercanine mean?
Supercanine means transcending or beyond what is typically canine.
What part of speech is supercanine?
Supercanine is an adjective.

Words near supercanine in the dictionary

  1. supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
  2. supercalifragilisticexpialidociously
  3. supercalifragilisticexpialidociousness
  4. supercallosal
  5. supercandid
  6. supercanine
  7. supercannon
  8. supercannons
  9. supercanopies
  10. supercanopy
  11. supercapable

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