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canine

adjective
🔊/ˈkeɪnaɪn/
🔊/ˈkeɪnaɪn/
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  1. connected with dogs犬的；似犬的
    • London’s canine population伦敦的犬只数量
    • her canine companion, Goldie她的犬友戈尔迪
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryCanine is used with these nouns:
    • companion
    • tooth
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    Word Originlate Middle English (in sense 1): from French, from Latin caninus, from canis ‘dog’.

canine

noun
🔊/ˈkeɪnaɪn/
🔊/ˈkeɪnaɪn/
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  1. (also canine tooth)
     one of the four pointed teeth in the front of a human’s or animal’s mouth（人或动物的）犬齿 compare incisor, molar, premolar, wisdom toothTopics Bodyc2
  2. (formal) a dog犬Topics Animalsc2
    3. Word Originlate Middle English (in sense 1): from French, from Latin caninus, from canis ‘dog’.