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Doglike vs Cynomorphic - What's the difference?

doglike | cynomorphic |

As adjectives the difference between doglike and cynomorphic

is that doglike is similar to a dog; while cynomorphic is doglike.

As an adverb doglike

is in a way.

doglike

English

Alternative forms

* dog-like

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Similar to a dog; .
  • Similar to that of a dog
    • doglike nose
    doglike devotion
  • (rare) Befitting a dog
    • doglike treatment

    Quotations

    * Homer, The Odyssey , translated by Edward McCrorie in 2004: *: Nothing is more hateful and doglike than hunger: it tells then forces a man to remember its own needs, however worn the man is, the longing he suffers, the way my heart still mourns.

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a way.
  • (rare) As one would act toward a dog; as, to treat someone .

    • See also

    * canine * doglike bat

    Anagrams

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    cynomorphic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • 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.

    Related terms

    * cynomorph * cynomorphizing * cynomorphism