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Canis  n.  (pl. canes)  (Zool.) A genus of carnivorous mammals, of the family Canidae, including the dogs and wolves.
Canis major, a constellation to the southeast of Orion, containing Sirius or the Dog Star.
Canis minor, a constellation to the east of Orion, containing Procyon, a star of the first magnitude.






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"Canis" Quotes from Famous Books



... after all, the animal must be carnivorous! It is too tranquil for the ursus horridus; if it were the canis latrans, the voice would betray it. Nor would Nelly Wade be so familiar with any of the genus ferae. Venerable hunter! the solitary animal confined in that wagon by day, and in the tent at night, has occasioned me more perplexity of mind ...
— The Prairie • J. Fenimore Cooper

... of dog differs totally from the Dingo or Canis australiensis. I never saw one nearer than from twenty to thirty yards, and was unable to procure a specimen. Its colour is the same as that of the Australian dog, in parts however having a blackish tinge. The muzzle is narrow, long, thin, and tapers much, resembling that of a greyhound, ...
— Journals Of Two Expeditions Of Discovery In North-West And Western Australia, Vol. 1 (of 2) • George Grey

... whether Tobit's dog was to be called a comman cur (baty), or a greyhound, or a watch-dog. The dog does not appear in the English version of the Apocrypha, but in the Vulgate.—Tob. vi. I. Profectus est autem Tobias et canis sequutus est eum, et mansit ... juxta fluvium Tiberis.—xi. 9. Tunc praecucurrit canis ... et quasi nuncius ...
— Publications of the Scottish History Society, Vol. 36 • Sir John Lauder

... the island [6]; is a large wolf- like fox (Canis antarcticus), which is common to both East and West Falkland. I have no doubt it is a peculiar species, and confined to this archipelago; because many sealers, Gauchos, and Indians, who have visited these islands, all maintain that no such ...
— The Voyage of the Beagle • Charles Darwin

... militantis in Praetorio mater vidit in quiete, ut radicem sylvestris Rosae (quam Cynorrhodon vocant) blanditam sibi aspectu pridie in Fruteto, mitteret filio bibendam: In Lusitania res gerebatur, Hispaniae, proxima parte: casuque accidit, ut milite a morsu Canis incipiente aquas expavescere superveniret epistola orantis ut paretet religioni; servatusque est ex insperato, & postea quisquis auxilium simile ...
— Miscellanies upon Various Subjects • John Aubrey

... stars, the youth glanced around the darkening horizon and presently observed a tiny light far to the south. He stared at it quite surprised, and then he chanced to see a star just above it. It was the reflection of Sirius in Canis Major. ...
— The Cruise of the Dry Dock • T. S. Stribling

... small carnivora of the feline species, including two species of jackal, the dark and the golden; the former, "motlose" ('Megalotis capensis' or 'Cape fennec'), has the warmest fur the country yields; the latter, "pukuye" ('Canis mesomelas' and 'C. aureus'), is very handsome when made into the skin mantle called kaross. Next in value follow the "tsipa" or small ocelot ('Felis nigripes'), the "tuane" or lynx, the wild cat, the spotted cat, and other small animals. Great numbers of 'puti' ('duiker') and 'puruhuru' ...
— Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa - Journeys and Researches in South Africa • David Livingstone

... tergo quern nulls ciconia pinsit, Nec manus, auriculas imitari est mobilis albas, Nec lingua, quantum sitiat canis ...
— The Essays of Montaigne, Complete • Michel de Montaigne

... hinc juvenesque senesque Finem animo certum, miserisque viatica canis. [Footnote: Sat. ...
— Literary and Philosophical Essays • Various

... et in piceas Fluvius sese abdidit undas; Sed me ridiculam solventem a littore cymbam Nectaris ambrosii circumvolvuntur odores, Decedente Deo; naresque impellit acutas Confusi canis amnis et illaetabilis aura. ...
— Sagittulae, Random Verses • E. W. Bowling

... sum, ille Romaniorum, (Anonym Canis. p. 512.) The public and historical style of the Greeks was Rhx... princeps. Yet Cinnamus owns, that 'Imperatwr ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 6 • Edward Gibbon



Words linked to "Canis" :   family Canidae, Canis lupus, jackal, mammal genus, Canis dingo, dog, Canis rufus, Canis niger, Canis Major, Canis Minor, domestic dog, Canidae, Canis aureus, Erythronium dens-canis, Canis lupus tundrarum



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