Crossword clues for dingo
dingo
- Starts to describe indigenous native growling Ozzie
- Name used in sharp comment over dog
- Yellow Australian dog
- In Scotland, hit old wild dog
- Dog in wild
- Trained dog to keep at home — not this one!
- Wild canine
- Wild Australian dog
- Outback dog
- Outback canine
- Australian canine
- Outback predator
- Australian native canine
- Wolf relative
- Wild dog from Down Under
- Wombat stalker
- Wild dog that hunts wallabies
- Wild dog of Down Under
- Wallaby-hunting canine
- Wallaby predator
- Outback wild dog
- Kipling's yellow dog
- Aussie wild dog
- Aussie predator
- Aussie dog
- Sheep menace
- Down Under dog
- Australian sheep menace
- Dog, Down Under
- Sheep predator
- Coward, in Aussie slang
- Australian predator
- Dog from Down Under
- Hunter of wallabies and kangaroos
- Wolflike yellowish-brown wild dog of Australia
- Australian wild dog
- Australian dog
- Wild dog Down Under
- Wild dog of Australia [anagram of DOING]
- Down Under predator
- Dog found in the Outback
- Wild dog of the Outback
- Guarding ostrich, guarding dog
- Clamour over detaining German dog
- One of 24 doing somersaults
- Wild dog shot after row
- Wild dog, canine at heart?
- Wild dog fending off bears
- Kipling's "Yellow-Dog"
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dingo \Din"go\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A wild dog found in Australia, but supposed to have introduced at a very early period. It has a wolflike face, bushy tail, and a reddish brown color.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1789, Native Australian name, from Dharruk (language formerly spoken in the area of Sydney) /din-go/ "tame dog," though the English used it to describe wild Australian dogs. Bushmen continue to call the animal by the Dharruk term /warrigal/ "wild dog."
Wiktionary
n. (taxlink Canis lupus dingo subspecies noshow=1) , a wild dog native to Australia.
WordNet
Wikipedia
The dingo ( Canis lupus dingo) is a wild dog found in Australia. Its exact ancestry is debated, but dingoes are generally believed to be descended from semi-domesticated dogs from East or South Asia, which returned to a wild lifestyle when introduced to Australia. Both the dingo and domestic dog are classified as subspecies of Canis lupus in Mammal Species of the World.
The dingo's habitat ranges from deserts to grasslands and the edges of forests. Dingoes will normally make their dens in deserted rabbit holes and hollow logs close to an essential supply of water.
The dingo is the largest terrestrial predator in Australia, and plays an important role as an apex predator. However, the dingo is seen as a pest by livestock farmers due to attacks on animals. Conversely, their predation on rabbits, kangaroos and rats may be of benefit to graziers.
For many Australians, the dingo is a cultural icon. The dingo is seen by many as being responsible for thylacine extinction on the Australian mainland about two thousand years ago, although a recent study challenges this view. Dingoes have a prominent role in the culture of Aboriginal Australians as a feature of stories and ceremonies, and they are depicted on rock carvings and cave paintings.
Despite being an efficient hunter, it is listed as vulnerable to extinction. It is proposed that this is due to susceptibility to genetic pollution: a controversial concept according to which interbreeding with domestic dogs may dilute the dingo's unique adaptations to the Australian environment.
Dingo is a Finnish rock band formed around 1982. They fused Finnish melancholy with catchy rock melodies. The band was led by the frontman Pertti Neumann (also known as Pertti Nieminen). For a few years of top success, Dingo was one of the most popular Finnish rock bands and caused a phenomenon called "Dingomania" all over Finland.
Dingo's hit number one was called "Autiotalo", released also in English as "The House without a Name". There was even formed a separate youth culture in Finland, the Dingoes. The success, however, lasted only for a couple of years and Dingo broke up in October 1986. The band regrouped in 1998 and continues to perform occasionally. During their career, the band sold over 500,000 records in Finland.
Apart from "The House without a Name" Dingo has released the following songs in English: "Tell Me Now" (1986) and "Tobacco Road" (1986).
Dingo refers to the Australian dingo
Dingo may also refer to:
Dingo: Selections from the Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack to the 1992 movie of the same name. It was composed by Miles Davis and Michel Legrand.
Dingo is a 1991 Australian film directed by Rolf de Heer and written by Marc Rosenberg. It traces the pilgrimage of John Anderson (played by Colin Friels), an average guy with a passion for jazz, from his home in outback Western Australia to the jazz clubs of Paris, to meet his idol, jazz trumpeter Billy Cross (played by legendary trumpeter Miles Davis). In the film's opening sequence, Davis and his band unexpectedly land on a remote airstrip in the Australian outback and proceed to perform for the stunned locals. The performance was one of Davis's last on film.
The Dingo Scout Car was a light armoured car built in Australia during Second World War. They were produced by the Ford motor company during 1942.
Dingo is a novel by the French novelist and playwright Octave Mirbeau (1913).
The taxon dingo always refers to the native dog found in Australia, but may at times also refer to other dogs native to peninsular and island southeast Asia and neighboring regions, such as the New Guinea singing dog (halstromi). It has variously been considered a species of the dog genus (Canis dingo), a subspecies of gray wolf (Canis lupus dingo), and an invalid taxon or taxonomically synonymous with Canis lupus familiaris.
The genetic evidence indicates that the dingo clade originated from East Asian domestic dogs and was introduced through the South-East Asian archipelago into Australia, with a common ancestry between the Australian dingo and the New Guinea Singing Dog.
Usage examples of "dingo".
IF Ducky and Dingo expected Mart Kilgay to show tremors at mention of The Shadow, their guess was a bad one.
When Dingo had gone, Mart talked to Ducky, clipping his words with a harsh, confident tone.
While Ducky fumed with the hat and cloak, Dingo watched the courtyard.
Not only were there more koala bears than they could have imagined, there were dingos, kookaburras, kangaroos, and evena platypus.
Identify the therapist with the father, relive the original experience as an adult, and Dingo.
The trekkers ate, and tried to be oblivious of the abo signals, the uncanny bats, the howls of the dingoes and the unseen menace that hovered over this somber camp.
He would unpen the sheep, and the lurking dingoes, coming up from the creek to worry the lambs, would prove work for the dog.
Koalas, dingoes, kangaroos, and other marsupials huddled in the creek along with snakes and hares, emus, kiwis, and other birds.
Woolyan picked out the fine shinbone of a big dingo, and she rubbed it with sand from the bed of the creek until it was white and smooth, and she hid it in her hair, awaiting the time when she could catch Krubi alone.
Not only were there more koala bears than they could have imagined, there were dingos, kookaburras, kangaroos, and evena platypus.
Custer had to admit that a year or a century or a millennium of that would be better than keeling over and having dingos tear up your corpse and spread your bones over the uncaring sands.
We become the dingo, the eagle, the bush turkey, the one-one-one-eyed man, the man of beating stick-stick, the man who forages in nameless space.
I am the wife of my dear third, Mr. Badger, I still pursue those habits of observation which were formed during the lifetime of Captain Swosser and adapted to new and unexpected purposes during the lifetime of Professor Dingo.
Why did he not rise, and with him re-yard them, then gloatingly ask him where was the chinky crow by day, or sneaking dingo by night, that was any match for them, and then demand from his four-footed trusty mate the usual straightforward answer?
I've also given serious thought to being a Dingoes groupie for a while, too.