samoyedes Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun Siberian breed of white or cream-colored dog of the spitz family
    Samoyed; Samoyede.

WordNet

Sam`oy*edes" noun plural
Wordforms
singular Samoyede
Definitions
  1. (Ethnol.) An ignorant and degraded Turanian tribe which occupies a portion of Northern Russia and a part of Siberia. also Samoyeds.

Webster 1913