A hunting dog that hunts primarily by sight rather than by scent, such as a greyhound or saluki.
From 'gaze' (to look intently) plus 'hound' (a hunting dog), referring to dogs that rely on their exceptional vision to spot and chase prey across open terrain.
Gazehounds are an ancient technology—humans bred sighthounds for thousands of years before inventing the name for them; the term reflects how people gradually realized some dogs hunted by watching instead of sniffing.
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