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31bat — bat1 /bat/, n., v., batted, batting. n. 1. Sports. a. the wooden club used in certain games, as baseball and cricket, to strike the ball. b. a racket, esp. one used in badminton or table tennis. c. a whip used by a jockey. d. the act of using a… …
32canine — caninity /kay nin i tee/, n. /kay nuyn/, adj. 1. of or like a dog; pertaining to or characteristic of dogs: canine loyalty. 2. Anat., Zool. of or pertaining to the four pointed teeth, esp. prominent in dogs, situated one on each side of each jaw …
33flying fox — 1. any large fruit bat of the genus Pteropus, of Old World tropical regions, having a foxlike head. 2. Australian. an aerial conveyor belt or suspended carrier operating on cables, often used to convey ore, dirt, or the like, over rivers and… …
34foxy — foxily, adv. foxiness, n. /fok see/, adj., foxier, foxiest. 1. foxlike; cunning or crafty; slyly clever. 2. yellowish or reddish brown, as of the color of the common red fox. 3. Slang. a. sexually appealing; attractive. b. stylish; mo …
35keeshond — /kays hond , kees /, n., pl. keeshonden / hon deuhn/. one of a Dutch breed of small dogs having thick, silver gray hair tipped with black and a tail carried over the back. [1925 30; < D, prob. special use of Kees (shortening of proper name… …
36maned wolf — a South American wild dog, Chrysocyon jubatus, having a shaggy, reddish coat and long ears and legs: now reduced in number. [1900 05] * * * ▪ mammal (species Chrysocyon brachyurus), rare, large eared member of the dog family (Canidae) found in… …
37phalanger — /feuh lan jeuhr/, n. any of numerous arboreal marsupials of the family Phalangeridae, of Australia, having foxlike ears and a long, bushy tail. [1765 75; < F (Buffon) or < NL (1780) < Gk phalang , s. of phálanx PHALANX + NL er, of unclear orig.;… …
38skunk — /skungk/, n., pl. skunks, (esp. collectively) skunk, v. n. 1. a small North American mammal, Mephitis mephitis, of the weasel family, having a black coat with a white, V shaped stripe on the back, and ejecting a fetid odor when alarmed or… …
39Borhyaenidae — ▪ marsupial family family of extinct South American marsupial mammals occurring from the Late Paleocene Epoch into the Pliocene (from about 63.5 to 5 million years ago). It is named for the genus Borhyaena; hyena like specimens of this… …
40Finnish spitz — ▪ breed of dog breed of dog native to Finland, where a breed standard has existed since 1812. It is nicknamed the “barking bird dog” for its habit of “yodeling,” or barking continuously, to alert the hunter to the location of game birds.… …
