Adive

Quick meaning: Adive is a noun meaning The golden jackal; a smaller sort of jackal, sometimes domesticated.

Meaning

The golden jackal; a smaller sort of jackal, sometimes domesticated.

Example Sentences

We are uncertain whether these two names denote animals of different species. We only know, that the jackal is larger, fiercer, and more difficult to tame than the adive;† but that, in every other article, the resemblance is perfect. Hence the adive may be only the jackal rendered smaller, feebler, and more gentle than the wild race, by being tamed and kept in a domestic state; for the adive is to the jackal nearly what the lap-dog, or small-water-dog, is to the shepherd's dog.

Word Forms

• adives

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include jackall, werejackal, shakal, dieb, jackal, kholah.

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