arson dog

English

Noun

arson dog (plural arson dogs)

1. A dog trained to use its sense of smell to locate traces of accelerant at sites of a suspected arson.
   • 2006, Jenni Bidner, Dog Heroes: Saving Lives and Protecting America, page 98:

     Identifying 1/1000th of a drop of 50 percent evaporated gasoline is an easy task for a well-trained arson dog.

Hypernyms

• police dog
• detection dog

Translations

dog trained to locate traces of accelerant

• Japanese: 放火犬 (ほうかけん, hōkaken)
• Swedish: brandhund c

Anagrams

• dragoons, gadroons