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LYCAON PICTUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Lycaon pictus mean?
• LYCAON PICTUS (noun)
The noun LYCAON PICTUS has 1 sense:
1. a powerful doglike mammal of southern and eastern Africa that hunts in large packs; now rare in settled area
Familiarity information: LYCAON PICTUS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A powerful doglike mammal of southern and eastern Africa that hunts in large packs; now rare in settled area
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
African hunting dog; Cape hunting dog; hyena dog; Lycaon pictus
Hypernyms ("Lycaon pictus" is a kind of...):
wild dog (any of various undomesticated mammals of the family Canidae that are thought to resemble domestic dogs as distinguished from jackals or wolves)
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