Carolina dog

noun

A type of dog, thought to have reached the North American continent before Europeans (and European dogs), which has a fawn, black, white, or piebald coat and which naturally roams the cypress swamps of the Carolinas, but may be domesticated.

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Meanings

nounCarolina dog (plural Carolina dogs)

plural Carolina dogs

  1. biologyA type of dog, thought to have reached the North American continent before Europeans (and European dogs), which has a fawn, black, white, or piebald coat and which naturally roams the cypress swamps of the Carolinas, but may be domesticated.

    Synonyms: Dixie Dingo, American dingo, American Dingo, yellow dog, yaller dog, yallar dog

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA type of dog, thought to have reached the North American continent before Europeans (and European dogs), which has a fawn, black, white, or piebald coat and which naturally roams the cypress swamps of the Carolinas, but may be domesticated.

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Dixie DingoAmerican dingoAmerican Dingoyellow dogyaller dogyallar dog
Also see
american dingodixie dingo

Origin

After the Carolinas, where the dogs were first discovered or rediscovered in the modern era.

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Translations

Finnish carolinankoira
  • carolinankoiradog breed
Russian каролинская собака
  • каролинская собака (karolinskaja sobaka)dog breed
Cite this entry
APA

Carolina dog. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Carolina%20dog

MLA

“Carolina dog.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Carolina%20dog. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Carolina dog,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Carolina%20dog.

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