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BLOODHOUND
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bloodhound mean?
• BLOODHOUND (noun)
The noun BLOODHOUND has 1 sense:
1. a breed of large powerful hound of European origin having very acute smell and used in tracking
Familiarity information: BLOODHOUND used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A breed of large powerful hound of European origin having very acute smell and used in tracking
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
bloodhound; sleuthhound
Hypernyms ("bloodhound" is a kind of...):
hound; hound dog (any of several breeds of dog used for hunting typically having large drooping ears)
Context examples
Nig, equally friendly, though less demonstrative, was a huge black dog, half bloodhound and half deerhound, with eyes that laughed and a boundless good nature.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
And Littimer had better have a bloodhound at his back, than little Mowcher!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The bloodhounds vainly quested on the lost trail.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
A pack of bloodhounds followed the way of his bleeding feet.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
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