cynomorphic
English
Etymology
cyno- + -morphic
Adjective
cynomorphic (comparative more cynomorphic, superlative most cynomorphic)
- doglike
- 1946, Blackwood's magazine
- The company of these excellent animals in my childhood gave a kind of cynomorphic twist to my philosophy and an enjoyment of animal society...
- 1991, David Gordon White, Myths of the dog-man
- It was especially the unburied dead whose souls were considered to be cynomorphic in the ancient world: Lilja, Dogs, p. 35.
- 1993, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, The Hidden Life of Dogs p. 134 (First Mariner Books edition 2010)
- What do dogs want? They want each other. Human beings are merely a cynomorphic substitute, as we all know.
- 2009?, Beatrice Chandler Gesell, The Normal Child and Primary Education
- A dog cannot help but be cynomorphic in his mentality and attitude.
- 1946, Blackwood's magazine
Related terms
- cynomorph
- cynomorphizing
- cynomorphism