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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

supercanine en · ADJ

Etymology

From super- + canine.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Transcending or beyond what is typically canine.
    • He feels, and naturally, too, that his almost supercanine efforts have been wasted. 1892, Stella Gilman, That Dakota Girl, page 92:
    • I needed to think of the steroids as superhuman, supercanine. There could be no surgery for her again on her spine. The steroids had to be powerful. They had to work. 2016, Steven Rowley, Lily and the Octopus, page 143: