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malamute
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun malamute has 1 sense
- malamute(n = noun.animal) alaskan malamute, malemute - breed of sled dog developed in Alaska; Array is a kind of sled dog, sledge dog
OXFORD DICTIONARY
malamute, n. (also malemute) an Eskimo dog.
Etymology
name of an Alaskan Eskimo tribe
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