MEXICAN HAIRLESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mexican hairless mean? 

• MEXICAN HAIRLESS (noun)
  The noun MEXICAN HAIRLESS has 1 sense:

1. any of an old breed of small nearly hairless dogs of Mexico

  Familiarity information: MEXICAN HAIRLESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEXICAN HAIRLESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of an old breed of small nearly hairless dogs of Mexico

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Mexican hairless" is a kind of...):

Canis familiaris; dog; domestic dog (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)

 Context examples 

Sometimes he thought of Judge Miller’s big house in the sun-kissed Santa Clara Valley, and of the cement swimming-tank, and Ysabel, the Mexican hairless, and Toots, the Japanese pug; but oftener he remembered the man in the red sweater, the death of Curly, the great fight with Spitz, and the good things he had eaten or would like to eat.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

They came and went, resided in the populous kennels, or lived obscurely in the recesses of the house after the fashion of Toots, the Japanese pug, or Ysabel, the Mexican hairless,—strange creatures that rarely put nose out of doors or set foot to ground.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)