cynomorphic

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1. doglike

   2009?, Beatrice Chandler Gesell, The Normal Child and Primary Education A dog cannot help but be cynomorphic in his mentality and attitude.

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   The company of these excellent animals in my childhood gave a kind of cynomorphic twist to my philosophy and an enjoyment of animal society...

   1946, Blackwood's magazine

   It was especially the unburied dead whose souls were considered to be cynomorphic in the ancient world: Lilja, Dogs, p. 35.

   1991, David Gordon White, Myths of the dog-man

   What do dogs want? They want each other. Human beings are merely a cynomorphic substitute, as we all know.

   1993, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, The Hidden Life of Dogs p. 134 (First Mariner Books edition 2010)