"arson dog" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: arson dogs [plural]
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  1. A dog trained to use its sense of smell to locate traces of accelerant at sites of a suspected arson. Wikipedia link: Police dog Categories (lifeform): Working dogs Hypernyms: police dog, detection dog Translations (dog trained to locate traces of accelerant): 放火犬 (hōkaken) (alt: ほうかけん) (Japanese), brandhund [common-gender] (Swedish)

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