wild dog

/waɪld dɔg/

Other forms: wild dogs

Definitions of wild dog

1. noun

   any of various undomesticated mammals of the family Canidae that are thought to resemble domestic dogs as distinguished from jackals or wolves
   types:

   Canis dingo, dingo, warragal, warrigal

   wolflike yellowish-brown wild dog of Australia

   Cuon alpinus, dhole

   fierce wild dog of the forests of central and southeast Asia that hunts in packs

   Dusicyon cancrivorus, crab-eating dog, crab-eating fox

   wild dog of northern South America

   Nyctereutes procyonides, raccoon dog

   small wild dog of eastern Asia having facial markings like those of a raccoon

   African hunting dog, Cape hunting dog, Lycaon pictus, hyena dog

   a powerful doglike mammal of southern and eastern Africa that hunts in large packs; now rare in settled area

   type of:

   canid, canine

   any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles