gazelle hound

1. 1.

   old breed of tall swift keen-eyed hunting dogs resembling greyhounds; from Egypt and southwestern Asia

   SynonymsSaluki

   Broaderhound

Questions about gazelle hound

What does gazelle hound mean?

gazelle hound means "old breed of tall swift keen-eyed hunting dogs resembling greyhounds; from Egypt and southwestern Asia".

What is another word for gazelle hound?

Close synonyms include Saluki. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gazelle hound a common word?

gazelle hound is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.