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Webster 1913 Edition


Maikong


Mai-kong′

,
Noun.
(Zool.)
A South American wild dog (
Canis cancrivorus
); the crab-eating dog.

Definition 2024


maikong

maikong

English

Noun

maikong (plural maikongs)

  1. (rare) Synonym of crab-eating fox
    • 2004, Aad Krol, Timo de Rijk, editors, Yearbook Dutch Design 03/04:
      Those licking their stamps are thus confronted with a (according to experts) Malaysian bearded swine instead of a wild boar, and exotic white-winged woodpecker and not the great spotted woodpecker, an Indian four-horn antilope instead of a deer and not a fox but a maikong from Central and South America.