canine
adjective/ˈkeɪnaɪn/
/ˈkeɪnaɪn/
- connected with dogs
- London’s canine population
- her canine companion, Goldie
Oxford Collocations DictionaryCanine is used with these nouns:- companion
- tooth
Word Originlate Middle English (in sense 1): from French, from Latin caninus, from canis ‘dog’.Definitions on the go
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