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SPANIEL

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any of several breeds of small to medium-sized gun dogs with a long silky coat and long frilled ears

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("spaniel" 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 "spaniel"):

Brittany spaniel (tall active short-tailed French breed of bird dog having a usually smooth orange- or liver-and-white coat)

clumber; clumber spaniel (a thickset spaniel with longish silky hair)

field spaniel (large usually black hunting and retrieving spaniel with a dense flat or slightly wavy coat; cross between cocker and Sussex spaniel)

springer; springer spaniel (a large spaniel with wavy silky coat usually black or liver and white)

cocker; cocker spaniel; English cocker spaniel (a small breed with wavy silky hair; originally developed in England)

Sussex spaniel (an English breed with short legs and a golden liver-colored coat)

water spaniel (any dog of two large curly-coated breeds used for hunting waterfowl)

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