Crossword-Solution: OTOCYON
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| OTOCYON | anagram | OTYCOON |
We have 1 clue for the answer “OTOCYON”
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| The Cape fox. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings,
whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by
a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the
body.
Hint 2 anagram
TINOEOM
Hint 3 another clue
A FEELING OF GREAT ELATION
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Sentences with OTOCYON (4)
Other carnivora more or less common to the colony are the spotted hyena, aard-wolf (or _Proteles_), silver jackal, the _Otocyon_ or Cape wild dog, and various kinds of wild cats.
Whatever differences of opinion may obtain among naturalists as to the propriety of separating generically the foxes from the wolves and dogs, there can be none as to the claim of the long-eared fox (_Otocyon megalotis_) of south and east Africa to represent a genus by itself.
The additional molars in _Otocyon_ were regarded as survivals from a primitive type when a larger number was the rule.
The teeth vary somewhat in number, and the following table will serve to indicate the gradual reduction observable in the number of molars:-- _Otocyon_ I 3/3 C 1/1 Pm 4/4 M (3 or 4)/4 _Canis_ generally I 3/3 C 1/1 Pm 4/4 M (3 or 2)/(4 or 3) _Cyon_ I 3/3 C 1/1 Pm 4/4 M 2/2 _Icticyon_ I 3/3 C 1/1 Pm 4/4 M (2 or 1)/2 All the Dogs have a caecum[287] of simple cylindrical form.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1953).