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canid

ca·nid

UK/ˈkeɪnəd/ US/ˈkænəd/ uncommon

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any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles

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By surface analysis, an appellativization from Canid(ae) minus -ae (a pattern that recurs with many -idae names).

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