native dog
Britishnoun
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The area is known for its population of dingoes, a wild species of native dog that is protected in Queensland national parks.
From BBC • Jan. 23, 2026
Last week a native dog teamster reported that he had seen a thin column of smoke near where Pilot Eielson might have been forced down.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bull had ideas of his own, but after one sharp brush with Cuffy, from which he had emerged ruffled and bleeding, the native dog relinquished claim to dominance.
From Man Size by Raine, William MacLeod
What matters the sand or the whitening chalk, The blighted herbage, the black'ning log, The crooked beak of the eagle-hawk, Or the hot red tongue of the native dog?
From Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon by Clarke, Marcus Andrew Hislop
Alas! all was silence, and I then saw, by its pointed ears and bushy tail, that it was a dingo, or native dog, which was running my footsteps.
From Happy Days for Boys and Girls by Various
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