Carolina dog

English

A Carolina dog.

Etymology

After the Carolinas, where the dogs were first (re)discovered in the modern era.

Noun

Carolina dog (plural Carolina dogs)

(zoology) A type of dog, thought to have reached the North American continent before the European arrival, 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 (very rare in print)
American dingo, American Dingo

Translations

dog breed

Finnish: carolinankoira

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