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dhole

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
The dhole ( Cuon alpinus ) is a canid native to Central , South and Southeast Asia . Other English names for the species include Asiatic wild dog , Indian wild dog , whistling dog , red wolf (not to be confused with Canis rufus ), red dog , and mountain ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. An Asian wild dog, (taxlink Cuon alpinus species noshow=1).

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dhole \Dhole\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A fierce, wild dog ( Canis Dukhunensis ), found in the mountains of India. It is remarkable for its propensity to hunt the tiger and other wild animals in packs. [1913 Webster] ||

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. fierce wild dog of the forests of central and southeast Asia that hunts in packs [syn: Cuon alpinus ]

Usage examples of dhole.

Carter did not wish to meet a Dhole, so listened intently for any sound in the unknown depths of bones about him.

Great Abyss, to be distributed impartially amongst the Dholes, Gugs, ghasts and other dwellers in darkness whose modes of nourishment are not painless to their chosen victims.

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Shoggoths and Tcho-Tchos and Dholes and Tikis and Wendigos, for instance.

They were too persistent--they interfered with his duties in weaving spells to keep the frightful Dholes in their burrows, and became mixed up with his recollections of the myriad real worlds he had visited in light--beam envelopes.

There were hideous struggles with the bleached viscous Dholes in the primal tunnels that honeycombed the planet.

Yaddith would be a dead world dominated by triumphant Dholes, and that his escape in the light-wave envelope would be a matter of grave doubt.

He artfully fashioned a waxen mask and loose costume enabling him to pass among men as a human being of a sort, and devised a doubly potent spell with which to hold back the Dholes at the moment of his starting from the dead, black Yaddith of the inconceivable future.

Wolves, and their fiercer, doglike relatives, dholes, paced just beyond the range of her sling.

The usual choice of the great cats were the huge bison, aurochs, and deer, while packs of oversize hyenas, wolves, and dholes selected from more middle-size game.

Greens had had a lot of influence back in the 2030s, enough to override local protests and have bears, wolves, dholes, leopards and tigers and whatnot dropped into remote areas.

Dead bodies lay unclaimed by the sides of the busy streets, picked over by dholes and kit foxes, or floated amongst the flowering lilies in the wide canals, each attended by a retinue of green turtles and one or two pensive turkey vultures.

Carter did not wish to meet a Dhole, so listened intently for any sound in the unknown depths of bones about him.