Carolina dog

English
A Carolina dog.

Etymology

After the Carolinas, where the dogs were first (re)discovered in the modern era.

Noun

Carolina dog (plural Carolina dogs)

  1. A type of dog, thought to have reached America before Europeans did, 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 (very rare in print)
  • American dingo, American Dingo
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