What is "canine"

Usage examples of "canine".

He skipped nimbly out of reach of each threatening female--for such is the way of apes, if they be not in one of their occasional fits of bestial rage--and he growled back at the truculent young bulls, baring his canine teeth even as they.

The maltreatment of the human and canine bodies, and the crazy burial of the damaged Archaean specimens, were all of a piece with this apparent disintegrative madness.

Zero was one of those dogmen who desperately tried to deny their canine side.

Unaccountably, during World War II the Marines did not consider using dogs until after Guadalcanal, where canines, with their extraordinary sense of smell, could conceivably provide an excellent defense against the night infiltration by the Japanese.

Soon after the end of the Second World War, many canine behaviorists said that all military dogs had been destroyed because it was not possible to detrain dogs after military service to the extent that they would be safe for return to civilian life.

I remind you that Elfinish do not require the same primitive care as creatures such as canines and other lesser members of the felidae family?

Italian army canine unit, five Belgian Malinois dogs and their handlers have their second run at Villa Lorenzi.

Chinese water deer and the rib-faced deer or muntjac the upper canines exist, and are largely developed.

Her thin lips, the color of calf liver, drew back enough to expose her overlong and oversharp canines.

She could smell the blood from the living room floor where Lena and Suzette were still strewn on the floor, naked and supine, and crawling over the body of one of the maids, tearing at her with their nails and teeth, as if they were canines or hyenas, starved for a meal.

Dentition approaches the next genus, there being only one pair of unicuspidate upper incisors placed, one by each upper canine.

Farther on, past the fringes of the bison-horse herd, on the side of one of the low hills that lay between the plain and the river, they saw three of the over-sized, wolflike canines tearing apart the still-twitching carcass of an elk cow, while in the valley just below a black bear of good but not really remarkable size gorged himself in a dense tangle of berry bushes.

The druid had unleashed eight large, baboonlike primates, each over seventy pounds and armed with a long canine snout capable of crushing stone.

Once past the canine welcoming committee, she stepped from the tunnel into the wide corridor of the second level, squishing her way through the odiferous floor covering, past what had once been sumptuous bedrooms, and still showed rags of velvet bedhangings and drapes at blank, earth-filled windows.

Most important would be our canines, which are situated between the lateral incisor and the first premolar on each side of each jaw.