Meanings
plural canids
- Any member of the family Canidae, including canines (dogs, wolves, coyotes and jackals) and vulpines (foxes).
The jaw indicates the beginning of a long tradition of the interment of dogs with people, which reveals a deep attachment between some people and canids.
2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 189
Synonyms & antonyms
nounany of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
By surface analysis, an appellativization from Canid(ae) minus -ae (a pattern that recurs with many -idae names).
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan cànid
- cànidmember of Canidae
Dutch hondachtige
- hondachtigemember of Canidae
Finnish koiraeläin
- koiraeläinmember of Canidae
French canidé
- canidémember of Canidae
German Hund (sensu lato), Canide
- Hund (sensu lato)member of Canidae
- Canidemember of Canidae
- Hundeartigermember of Canidae
Italian canide
- canidemember of Canidae
Portuguese canídeo
- canídeomember of Canidae
Romanian canid
- canidmember of Canidae
Spanish cánido
- cánidomember of Canidae
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Cite this entry
canid. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/canid
“canid.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/canid. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “canid,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/canid.
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