Library / English Dictionary

RETRIEVER

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A dog with heavy water-resistant coat that can be trained to retrieve game

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("retriever" is a kind of...):

gun dog; sporting dog (a dog trained to work with sportsmen when they hunt with guns)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "retriever"):

flat-coated retriever (an English breed having a shiny black or liver-colored coat; retrieves game from land or water)

curly-coated retriever (an English breed having a tightly curled black or liver-colored coat; retrieves game from land or water)

golden retriever (an English breed having a long silky golden coat)

Labrador retriever (breed originally from Labrador having a short black or golden-brown coat)

Chesapeake Bay retriever (American breed having a short thick oily coat ranging from brown to light tan)

Derivation:

retrieve (run after, pick up, and bring to the master)

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