a. Gr. κυνο-, combining form of κύων (κυν-) dog; occurring in Greek in many compounds, partly adopted and largely imitated in modern technical terms and nonce-words, as cyno-genealogist, cyno-phrenology; also Cynoclept [Gr. κλέπτης thief; cf. κυνοκλόπος dog-stealing], a dog-stealer. Cynography [F. cynographie], a writing or treatise on dogs. Cynology, natural history of dogs. Cynophilist [F. cynophile; f. Gr. φίλος loving], a lover of dogs. Cynophobia [Gr. φόβος panic fear], aversion to and dread of dogs. Cynopodous a. [Gr. ποδ- foot], dog-footed, having feet with non-retractile claws. Cynorrhodon [so F.; f. Gr. ῥόδον rose], dog-rose, wild-rose.
1863. H. Kingsley, Austin Elliot, xxiv. (1865), 223. He was the greatest … cynoclept, or dog-dealer, in England.
1839. New Monthly Mag., LVI. 63. Your good cynogenealogist will trace out … the pedigree of any particular race.
1878. Bartley, trans. Topinard’s Anthrop., Introd. 9. Cynology being the natural history of the dog.
1890. G. Fleming, in 19th Cent., March, 505. Consider the perpetual abolition of the diabolical muzzle, ye cynophilists.
1879. M. D. Conway, Demonol., I. II. v. 136. The wild notion of Goethe, joined with his cynophobia.
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), Cynorrhodon, the wild Rose, or Sweet-brier Rose.
1744. Armstrong, Preserv. Health, I. 278. Where the cynorhodon with the rose For fragrance vies.
1817. N. Drake, Shaks., II. 81. The colour of the cynorhodon, or canker-rose.
