wirehaired terrier

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   a terrier with wiry hair

   Synonymswirehairwire-haired terrier

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Questions about wirehaired terrier

What does wirehaired terrier mean?

wirehaired terrier means "a terrier with wiry hair".

What is another word for wirehaired terrier?

Close synonyms include wirehair, wire-haired terrier. 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 wirehaired terrier a common word?

wirehaired terrier 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.