caninoid
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having the appearance or characteristics of a canine (canid).
adj
Having the appearance or characteristics of a canine tooth.
noun
A being having the appearance or characteristics of a canine (canid).
noun
A tooth having the appearance or characteristics of a canine tooth.
Example Sentences
- ""The vast underground garage is patrolled by another species of humanoid (caninoid?), these tooled to look like pet dogs but functioning as police vehicles.""
- "Lower jaw with several rows at anterior, outer row enlarged, posterior teeth larger but not caninoid. Upper jaw with several rows at anterior, less rows than lower jaw, outer row larger but not caninoid. No canines present."
- "2018 Vyacheslav Kharchienko et al, eds, Dependable IoT for Human and Industry: Modeling, Architecting, Implementation, River Publishers, 2018, page 38. "A local company (Boston Dynamics) has produced a family of robots who have become media stars: ...; SpotMini a "caninoid" can open doors, descend stairs backwards, and run autonomously in mixed human robot packs.""
- ""Probably the terminal, wide, oblique mouth, usually armed with enlarged teeth or caninoids or large canines of the Otalithinae, indicates the hunting of prey in superficial water,...""