canid

[ kan-id, key-nid ]

noun

1. any animal of the dog family Canidae, including the wolves, jackals, hyenas, coyotes, foxes, and domestic dogs.

canid

/ kăn′ĭd,kā′nĭd /

1. Any of various carnivorous mammals of the family Canidae, which includes the dogs, wolves, foxes, coyotes, and jackals.

Word History and Origins

Origin of canid¹

1885–90; < New Latin Canidae, equivalent to Can ( is ) a genus, including the dog and wolf ( Latin: dog) + -idae -id ²

Example Sentences

Before this finding, wolves were the only canid known to fish.

From Science News For Students

The discovery makes red foxes just the second type of canid — the group that includes wolves and dogs — known to hunt fish.

From Science News

The canids fare well because they face little competition for abundant prey and few dangers to their young.

From Popular-Science

They’re canids, like dogs, so it would be easy to compare them to a domesticated species, but they’re not particularly closely related to dogs, so there’s enough separation to see how forced domestication affects a new species.

From Popular-Science

Kershenbaum studies “Wolves & other canids,” “Dolphins & cetaceans” — and “Aliens.”

From Quanta Magazine

Social animals are the most easily subjugated by man, and several species of Canid hunt in packs.

From Project Gutenberg

When compared with all known members of the family of Canid they betray a distinct and abnormal origin.

From Project Gutenberg

De Blainville ('Ostographie, Canid,' p. 137) has also seen an extra molar on both sides.

From Project Gutenberg

Amongst mammals, we see it strikingly displayed in Bats, and in a lesser degree in the Felid and Canid.

From Project Gutenberg

The oldest and most central stock appears to be that of the dog family (Canid).

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