crab-eating dog

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   wild dog of northern South America

   Synonymscrab-eating foxDusicyon cancrivorus

   Broaderwild dog

Questions about crab-eating dog

What does crab-eating dog mean?

crab-eating dog means "wild dog of northern South America".

What is another word for crab-eating dog?

Close synonyms include crab-eating fox, Dusicyon cancrivorus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is crab-eating dog a common word?

crab-eating dog is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.