animal vs canine

animal

adj
  • Of or relating to animals. 

  • Pertaining to the spirit or soul; relating to sensation or innervation. 

  • Raw, base, unhindered by social codes. 

  • Excellent 

noun
  • Any member of the kingdom Animalia other than a human. 

  • A person who behaves wildly; a bestial, brutal, brutish, cruel, or inhuman person. 

  • Any land-living vertebrate (i.e. not fishes, insects, etc.). 

  • A person of a particular type. 

  • A eukaryote of the clade Animalia; a multicellular organism that is usually mobile, whose cells are not encased in a rigid cell wall (distinguishing it from plants and fungi) and which derives energy solely from the consumption of other organisms (distinguishing it from plants). 

  • Matter, thing. 

canine

adj
  • Of, or pertaining to, a dog or dogs. 

  • Dog-like. 

  • Of or pertaining to mammalian teeth which are cuspids or fangs. 

noun
  • Any member of Caninae, the only living subfamily of Canidae. 

  • A king and a nine as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em due to phonetic similarity. 

  • Any of certain extant canids regarded as similar to the dog or wolf (including coyotes, jackals, etc.) but distinguished from the vulpines, which are regarded as fox-like. 

  • In heterodont mammals, the pointy tooth between the incisors and the premolars; a cuspid. 

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