retriever
Other forms: retrievers
If your dog brings back anything you throw for her, she's a retriever. Many retrievers are bred to work alongside hunters, fetching game birds.
Even if your pup looks more like a mop than a Labrador retriever, you can still describe him as a retriever if he's intent on recovering every tennis ball you hurl across your yard. A retriever is a person or animal that retrieves things, or brings them back. So, strictly speaking, you're a retriever too, if you grab the runaway balls during your friends' tennis match! Retriever derives from the French verb trouver, "to find."
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a dog with heavy water-resistant coat that can be trained to retrieve gametypes:flat-coated retrieveran English breed having a shiny black or liver-colored coat; retrieves game from land or watercurly-coated retrieveran English breed having a tightly curled black or liver-colored coat; retrieves game from land or watergolden retrieveran English breed having a long silky golden coatLabrador retrieverbreed originally from Labrador having a short black or golden-brown coatChesapeake Bay retrieverAmerican breed having a short thick oily coat ranging from brown to light tantype of:
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