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5 letters · 8 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles
originBy surface analysis, an appellativization from Canid(ae) minus -ae (a pattern that recurs with many -idae names).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0