Crossword-Solution: OTOCYON
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| OTOCYON | anagram | OTYCOON |
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| The Cape fox. | 1 answer |
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Dermatological complaint
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
AZCMEE
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eruption
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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).