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# bloodhound

noun (a bloodhound, bloodhounds)

«bloodhound» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A large dog with a very good sense of smell, long droopy ears and loose wrinkled skin, used to follow the trail of people or animals. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bloodhound/#m1)
2. (informal) A person, like a detective, who is very good at finding things out. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bloodhound/#m2)

### In the lessons

In stories and police work, bloodhounds track missing people or escaped prisoners. In science, they are an example of how good a dog's nose is: much better than a human's. Phrase: sniff out like a bloodhound.

### Examples

- The bloodhound followed the scent through the woods. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bloodhound/#x1)
- Police used bloodhounds to find the lost hiker. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bloodhound/#x2)
- Bloodhounds have long, floppy ears. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bloodhound/#x3)
- Our detective sniffed out clues like a bloodhound. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bloodhound/#x4)
- A bloodhound's nose can follow a trail days old. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bloodhound/#x5)

### Note

Countable: bloodhounds. The name does not mean they like blood; «blood» once meant a pure-bred dog.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «bloodhound» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bloodhound/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«bloodhound» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/bloodhound.html) on Mova free.