TOY SPANIEL

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Meaning:

A very small spaniel

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("toy spaniel" is a kind of...):

toy; toy dog (any of several breeds of very small dogs kept purely as pets)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "toy spaniel"):

English toy spaniel (British breed having a long silky coat and rounded head with a short upturned muzzle)

King Charles spaniel (a toy English spaniel with a black-and-tan coat; named after Charles II who popularized it)

papillon (small slender toy spaniel with erect ears and a black-spotted brown to white coat)