supercanine

English

Etymology

super- +‎ canine

Adjective

supercanine (not comparable)

1. Transcending or beyond what is typically canine.
   • 1892, Stella Gilman, That Dakota Girl, page 92:

     He feels, and naturally, too, that his almost supercanine efforts have been wasted.

   • 2016, Steven Rowley, Lily and the Octopus, page 143:

     I needed to think of the steroids as superhuman, supercanine. There could be no surgery for her again on her spine. The steroids had to be powerful. They had to work.

Further reading

• “supercanine”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.