Carolina dog

English

Etymology

After the Carolinas, where the dogs were first discovered or rediscovered in the modern era.

Noun

Carolina dog (plural Carolina dogs)

  1. (zoology) A type of dog, thought to have reached the North American continent before Europeans (and European dogs), which has a fawn, black, white, or piebald coat and which naturally roams the cypress swamps of the Carolinas, but may be domesticated.
    Synonyms: Dixie Dingo, American dingo, American Dingo, yellow dog, yaller dog, yallar dog

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