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carolina dog

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.42 in modern English

Syllables
car-oli-na -dog
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

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.

Etymology

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

Inflected Forms

Carolina dogs (plural)

Synonyms

Dixie Dingo American dingo yellow dog yaller dog yallar dog

Questions

What does carolina dog mean?
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.
Where does carolina dog come from?
After the Carolinas, where the dogs were first discovered or rediscovered in the modern era.

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