pariah dog
Britishnoun
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India’s pariah dog, the dominant street breed, is probably a descendant of an early Chinese immigrant, said Peter Savolainen, a professor of evolutionary genetics at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
From New York Times ● Aug. 7, 2012
A pariah dog would slink into the courtyard from time to time in search of a morsel of food.
From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan
So I put aside the memory of the little pariah dog and the gosling.
From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan
My rifle was still unloaded when a spotted doe bounded out of the jungle, followed by a white pariah dog in full chase.
From The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon by Sir Samuel White Baker
SYKES, Colonel, on a pariah dog with crooked legs. -on small Indian asses. -on Gallus sonneratii. -on the voice of the Indian Kulm cock. -fertility of the fowl in most climates.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 by Charles Darwin
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