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CROUP
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks
Synonyms:
croup; croupe; hindquarters; rump
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("croup" is a kind of...):
body part (any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "croup"):
haunch (the loin and leg of a quadruped)
Holonyms ("croup" is a part of...):
bird (warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings)
quadruped (an animal especially a mammal having four limbs specialized for walking)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A disease of infants and young children; harsh coughing and hoarseness and fever and difficult breathing
Synonyms:
croup; spasmodic laryngitis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("croup" is a kind of...):
angina (any disease of the throat or fauces marked by spasmodic attacks of intense suffocative pain)
Derivation:
croupy (resembling or arising from or indicating croup)
