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
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
The native dog is generally believed to be an importation, being deficient of the false uterus or pouch characterising all our other quadrupeds.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 271, September 1, 1827 by Various
These I found had been inconsiderately fired by Jones our shepherd at a native dog belonging to our new guide and which had attacked the sheep.
From Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 by Thomas Mitchell
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