terrier
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Any of several usually small short-bodied breeds originally trained to hunt animals living underground (synset 102095120)
is a type of: hunting dog - a dog used in hunting gamesubtypes:
- bull terrier, bullterrier - a powerful short-haired terrier originated in England by crossing the bulldog with terriers
- bedlington terrier - a light terrier groomed to resemble a lamb
- border terrier - small rough-coated terrier of British origin
- kerry blue terrier - an Irish breed of medium-sized terriers with a silky blue-grey coat
- irish terrier - medium-sized breed with a wiry brown coat; developed in Ireland
- norfolk terrier - English breed of small terrier with a straight wiry grizzled coat and dropped ears
- norwich terrier - English breed of small short-legged terrier with a straight wiry red or grey or black-and-tan coat and erect ears
- yorkshire terrier - very small breed having a long glossy coat of bluish-grey and tan
- rat terrier, ratter - any of several breeds of terrier developed to catch rats
- fox terrier - small lively black-and-white terriers formerly used to dig out foxes
- wire-haired terrier, wirehair, wirehaired terrier - a terrier with wiry hair
- airedale, airedale terrier - breed of large wiry-coated terrier bred in Yorkshire
- cairn, cairn terrier - small rough-haired breed of terrier from Scotland
- australian terrier - small greyish wire-haired breed of terrier from Australia similar to the cairn
- dandie dinmont, dandie dinmont terrier - a breed of small terrier with long wiry coat and drooping ears
- boston bull, boston terrier - small pug-faced American terrier breed having a smooth brindle or black coat with white markings
- schnauzer - old German breed of sturdy black or greyish wire-haired terriers having a blunt muzzle ranging in size from fairly small to very large; used as ratters and guard dogs or police dogs
- scotch terrier, scottie, scottish terrier - old Scottish breed of small long-haired usually black terrier with erect tail and ears
- chrysanthemum dog, tibetan terrier - breed of medium-sized terriers bred in Tibet resembling Old English sheepdogs with fluffy curled tails
- silky terrier, sydney silky - Australian breed of toy dogs having a silky blue coat
- skye terrier - Scottish breed of terrier with shaggy hair and long low body with short legs; native to the Isle of Skye
- soft-coated wheaten terrier - Irish breed of medium-sized terrier with an abundant coat any shade of wheat and very hairy head and muzzle
- west highland white terrier - small white long-coated terrier developed in Scotland
- lhasa, lhasa apso - a breed of terrier having a long heavy coat raised in Tibet as watchdogs
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