English

Adjective

cynomorphic ‎(comparative more cynomorphic, superlative most cynomorphic)

1. doglike
   • 1946, Blackwood's magazine

     The company of these excellent animals in my childhood gave a kind of cynomorphic twist to my philosophy and an enjoyment of animal society...

   • 1991, David Gordon White, Myths of the dog-man

     It was especially the unburied dead whose souls were considered to be cynomorphic in the ancient world: Lilja, Dogs, p. 35.

   • 1993, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, The Hidden Life of Dogs p. 134 (First Mariner Books edition 2010)

     What do dogs want? They want each other. Human beings are merely a cynomorphic substitute, as we all know.

   • 2009?, Beatrice Chandler Gesell, The Normal Child and Primary Education

     A dog cannot help but be cynomorphic in his mentality and attitude.

Related terms

• cynomorph
• cynomorphizing
• cynomorphism