Newfoundland
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a large island in E Canada. 42,734 sq. mi. (110,680 sq. km).
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a province in E Canada, composed of Newfoundland island and Labrador. 155,364 sq. mi. (402,390 sq. km). St. John's.
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one of a breed of large, powerful dogs having a dense, oily, usually black coat, raised originally in Newfoundland.
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an island of E Canada, separated from the mainland by the Strait of Belle Isle: with the Coast of Labrador, forms the province of Newfoundland and Labrador; consists of a rugged plateau with the Long Range Mountains in the west. Area: 110 681 sq km (42 734 sq miles)
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the former name for Newfoundland and Labrador
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a very large heavy breed of dog similar to a Saint Bernard with a flat coarse usually black coat
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It was the first overseas possession of England; fishing settlements began in the sixteenth century.
Newfoundland became Canada's tenth province in 1949. The remains of possible Viking settlements have been found in Newfoundland.
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Neither the Amazon nor the Congo, it is the 1.5 billion acre band of coniferous forest running from Newfoundland to Alaska.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
Oil-and-gas extraction increased for a second consecutive month, with higher crude-petroleum output in Saskatchewan and Newfoundland and Labrador, as well as a rise in natural gas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
He is currently studying skull specimens from parts of Canada, including Newfoundland and Labrador, provided by the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 30, 2026
The research team, which included scientists from UTS and Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada, focused on compounds known as "mitochondrial uncouplers."
From Science Daily ● Jan. 5, 2026
Not to Newfoundland, and not to his own thoughtlessness.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
I live with 12 chickens and two big Newfoundlands and two kids and a husband and a cat, so I know that home is sanctuary for people.
From Salon ● May 3, 2023
This could also be known as the heavyweight division: Bernese mountain dogs, bullmastiffs, Newfoundlands and St. Bernards.
From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2020
Newfoundlands are naturally strong swimmers and Bilbo was trained to swim out to anyone in difficulties carrying a rope attached to a harness.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2015
The two slobbering Newfoundlands are named Newsome and Winslow, after two Cleveland Browns tight ends.
From BusinessWeek ● May 29, 2014
They were our station lights, nevertheless, and a quarter of an hour afterwards we were all having supper together, the Newfoundlands having been previously carefully dried with towels.
From Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites by Stables, Gordon
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