rhodesian ridgeback

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   a powerful short-haired African hunting dog having a crest of reversed hair along the spine

   Broaderhunting dog

Questions about rhodesian ridgeback

What does rhodesian ridgeback mean?

rhodesian ridgeback means "a powerful short-haired African hunting dog having a crest of reversed hair along the spine".

Is rhodesian ridgeback a common word?

rhodesian ridgeback 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.