Difference between canid and wolf
Definitions
noun
- any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles
Examples
There are 36 species of Canidae, including dogs, wolves, coyotes, jackals and foxes.
The snout was long and canid, with heavy canines and broad carnassial teeth.
Red Wolves, scientific name Canis rufus, belong to the dog family, canidae.
Definitions
noun
- Austrian composer (1860-1903)
- German classical scholar who claimed that the Iliad and Odyssey were composed by several authors (1759-1824)
Examples
This was a sad day indeed for the big bad wolf of the banking world, and not just because it must forego those rich pickings it planned to cream off from two billion cash machine transactions a year.
He would insist to his dying day that an arctic wolf had savaged him.
Asked about parents who choose not to vaccinate their children against HPV, the virologist Nathan Wolfe, author of the new book "The Viral Storm," told me: "Basically the decision to not vaccinate risks not only cancer for their kids but cancer for anyone their kids have sex with.
