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# bloodhound

«bloodhound» in Mova's school dictionary: **A large dog with a very good sense of smell, long droopy…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a bloodhound, bloodhounds)

### meaning for a pupil

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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bloodhound/#m2)

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bloodhound» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bloodhound/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.