Definition of Crab-eating dog

1. Noun. Wild dog of northern South America.

Exact synonyms: Crab-eating Fox, Dusicyon Cancrivorus
Generic synonyms: Wild Dog

Lexicographical Neighbors of Crab-eating Dog

coæqual
coætaneous
coæval
cp.
cpg-rich island
cpg islands
cps
craal
craaled
craaling
craals
crab-apple
crab-eater
crab-eating dog (current term)
crab-eating fox
crab-eating macaque
crab-eating opossum
crab-eating raccoon
crab-eating seal
crab Louis
crab apple
crab boil
crab boils
crab burger
crab burgers
crab cactus
crab canon
crab canons

Literary usage of Crab-eating dog

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americanaedited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1903)
"The cultivated crab- apple requires about the same treatment as the true apple. See APPLE. crab-eating dog, a fox-dog (Canis can- ..."

2. British Mammals: An Attempt to Describe and Illustrate the Mammalian Fauna by Harry Hamilton Johnston (1903)
"... (crab-eating dog of Central and South America). ... AS COMPARED WITH THE ANGLE OF THE JAW IN Canis cancrivorus (crab-eating dog) AND IN ..."

3. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"... applied in books to various South American animals, perhaps most strictly to the crab- eating dog (Canis cancrivorus) of Guiana. ..."

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