NOUN | animal | spaniel | any of several breeds of small to medium-sized gun dogs with a long silky coat and long frilled ears |
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Sounds | spae'nyahl | |
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Rhymes | abdominal ... zoological: 2115 rhymes with ahl... |
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 |
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 |
Spanish | perro de aguas, spaniel | |
Catalan | spaniel |
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