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
Its mineral exhibits are lead, copper and tin ore; silks, whalebone; skins, those of the numerous species of kangaroo and of the dingo or native dog predominating.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. by Various
I immediately caught the rifle, and turning around saw a native dog dragging my saddle by one of the straps.
From Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1869 by Corfield, W. H. (William Henry)
The party saw only the three kinds of animals above-mentioned, and heard the barking of the native dog; no other reptiles but iguanas and lizards and a single snake presented themselves.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 369, May 9, 1829 by Various
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