xoloitzcuintli

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US/ˌʃoʊ.loʊ.ɪtsˈkwɪn.tli/

noun

A breed of dog, the Mexican Hairless.

Scrabble 32

Meanings

xoloitzcuintli1

nounxoloitzcuintli (plural xoloitzcuintlis)

plural xoloitzcuintlis

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Xoloitzcuintli.

Xoloitzcuintli2

nounXoloitzcuintli (plural Xoloitzcuintli)

alternative Xoloitzcuintle

  1. A breed of dog, the Mexican Hairless.

    Owing to its hairless condition, the xoloitzcuintli visibly perspires...

    2005, Kent V Flannery, Joyce Marcus, Excavations at San José Mogote 1: the household archaeology
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    Whoever has petted a hairless dog will verify that these wrinkles are produced by a lack of hair, especially among the pups of the xoloitzcuintli.

    1991, Guillermo García Oropeza, Perros en las tumbas de Colima

    The Mexican xoloitzcuintli (or xolo) is a likely GFP K-9 breed (fig. 77).

    2005, Eduardo Kac, Telepresence and bio art: networking humans, rabbits, and robots

    Synonyms: Mexican hairless, Xolo

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA breed of dog, the Mexican Hairless.

Origin

  1. Classical Nahuatlxoloitzcuintli
  2. EnglishXoloitzcuintli

Through Spanish from Classical Nahuatl xoloitzcuintli (literally “dog of Xolotl”).

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