canine
(adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of members of the family Canidae
canine, laniary
(adjective) of or relating to a pointed conical tooth
canine, canid
(noun) any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles
canine, canine tooth, eyetooth, eye tooth, dogtooth, cuspid
(noun) one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars
Source: WordNet® 3.1
canine (not comparable)
Of, or pertaining to, a dog or dogs.
Dog-like.
(anatomy) Of or pertaining to mammalian teeth which are cuspids or fangs.
(medicine, obsolete) Of an appetite: depraved or inordinate; used to describe eating disorders.
• (of dogs): dogly, houndly
• (dog-like): dogly, doglike, houndly
canine (plural canines)
Any member of Caninae, the only living subfamily of Canidae.
(formal) Any of certain extant canids regarded as similar to the dog or wolf (including coyotes, jackals, etc.) but distinguished from the vulpines, which are regarded as fox-like.
In heterodont mammals, the pointy tooth between the incisors and the premolars; a cuspid.
(poker slang) A king and a nine as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em due to phonetic similarity.
• (dog or wolf): dog
• (pointy tooth): cuspid
• neanic
Source: Wiktionary
Ca*nine", a. Etym: [L. caninus, fr. canis dog: cf. F. canin. See Hound.]
1. Of or pertaining to the family Canidæ, or dogs and wolves; having the nature or qualities of a dog; like that or those of a dog.
2. (Anat.)
Definition: Of or pertaining to the pointed tooth on each side the incisors. Canine appetite, a morbidly voracious appetite; bulimia.
– Canine letter, the letter r. See R.
– Canine madness, hydrophobia.
– Canine toth, a toth situated between the incisor and bicuspid teeth, so called because well developen in dogs; usually, the third tooth from the front on each side of each jaw; an eyetooth, or the corresponding tooth in the lower jaw.
Ca*nine", n. (Anat.)
Definition: A canine tooth.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
6 May 2025
(adjective) marked by or paying little heed or attention; “We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics”--Franklin D. Roosevelt; “heedless of danger”; “heedless of the child’s crying”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
