cynomorphic
adjEtymology From cyno- + -morphic.
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doglike
- The company of these excellent animals in my childhood gave a kind of cynomorphic twist to my philosophy and an enjoyment of animal society...1946, Blackwood's magazine:
- It was especially the unburied dead whose souls were considered to be cynomorphic in the ancient world: Lilja, Dogs, p. 35.1991, David Gordon White, Myths of the dog-man:
2 more examples
- What do dogs want? They want each other. Human beings are merely a cynomorphic substitute, as we all know.1993, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, The Hidden Life of Dogs p. 134 (First Mariner Books edition 2010)
- 2009?, Beatrice Chandler Gesell, The Normal Child and Primary Education A dog cannot help but be cynomorphic in his mentality and attitude.
- Related terms
- cynomorph, cynomorphizing, cynomorphism