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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Narrower | Brittany spaniel | tall active short-tailed French breed of bird dog having a usually smooth orange- or liver-and-white coat |
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Sussex spaniel | An English breed with short legs and a golden liver-colored coat |
clumber, clumber spaniel | A thickset spaniel with longish silky hair |
cocker spaniel, English cocker spaniel, cocker | A small breed with wavy silky hair |
field spaniel | large usually black hunting and retrieving spaniel with a dense flat or slightly wavy coat |
springer spaniel, springer | A large spaniel with wavy silky coat usually black or liver and white |
water spaniel | Any dog of two large curly-coated breeds used for hunting waterfowl |
Broader | sporting dog, gun dog | A dog trained to work with sportsmen when they hunt with guns |
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Spanish | perro de aguas, spaniel |
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Catalan | spaniel |
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