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Definition of canine adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

canine

adjective
 
/ˈkeɪnaɪn/
 
/ˈkeɪnaɪn/
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  1. connected with dogs
    • London’s canine population
    • her canine companion, Goldie
    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’.
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