water spaniel

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Either of two medium-sized to large breeds of spaniel, having a curly water-resistant coat and often used in hunting to retrieve waterfowl.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• A curly-haired breed of spaniels, naturally very fond of the water.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun a large breed of spaniel used in hunting waterfowl

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun any dog of two large curly-coated breeds used for hunting waterfowl