WordNet
n. a member of the genus Canis (probably descended from the common wolf) that has been domesticated by man since prehistoric times; occurs in many breeds; "the dog barked all night" [syn: dog, Canis familiaris]
Usage examples of "domestic dog".
On the other hand, an intelligence based on the psychome -- that is, one without a true psyche -- will rarely do so, with the exception of the long-domesticated Canis familiaris, the domestic dog.
For dogs: Stanley Olsen, Origins of the Domestic Dog (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1985).
For sometime already Mr Verloc's immobility by the side of the arm- chair resembled a state of collapsed coma - a sort of passive insensibility interrupted by slight convulsive starts, such as may be observed in the domestic dog having a nightmare on the hearthrug.
In the first, a domestic dog-named Buck is driven by the cruelty of one master and the death of another to retreat from the world of man.
Also, they killed any domestic dog they could find, patiently stalking it if necessary, so that the people of the Taig kept their dogs close at hand and shut them up at night.