native dog

British  

noun

1. a dingo

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Example Sentences

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

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

We had never seen a wild native dog during the journey.

From Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 2 by MacGillivray, John

The dogs were fastened up at different points round the fold, that should a dingo, or native dog, a sort of fox, come near, their barking might at once arouse him.

From Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading by Kingston, William Henry Giles