Carolina dog

English

A Carolina dog.

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 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, American dingo, American Dingo, yellow dog, yaller dog, yallar dog

Translations

dog breed

• Finnish: carolinankoira
• Russian: каролинская собака (karolinskaja sobaka)