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Definition of Crab-eating dog
1. Noun. Wild dog of northern South America.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crab-eating Dog
Literary usage of Crab-eating dog
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americanaedited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1903)
"The cultivated crab- apple requires about the same treatment as the true apple.
See APPLE. crab-eating dog, a fox-dog (Canis can- ..."
2. British Mammals: An Attempt to Describe and Illustrate the Mammalian Fauna by Harry Hamilton Johnston (1903)
"... (crab-eating dog of Central and South America). ... AS COMPARED WITH THE ANGLE
OF THE JAW IN Canis cancrivorus (crab-eating dog) AND IN ..."
3. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"... applied in books to various South American animals, perhaps most strictly to
the crab- eating dog (Canis cancrivorus) of Guiana. ..."
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