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THRASHER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed
Synonyms:
Alopius vulpinus; fox shark; thrasher; thresher; thresher shark
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("thrasher" is a kind of...):
shark (any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales)
Holonyms ("thrasher" is a member of...):
Alopius; genus Alopius (type genus of the family Alopiidae; in some classifications considered a genus of the family Lamnidae)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Thrush-like American songbird able to mimic other birdsongs
Synonyms:
mocking thrush; thrasher
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("thrasher" is a kind of...):
oscine; oscine bird (passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "thrasher"):
brown thrasher; brown thrush; Toxostoma rufums (common large songbird of eastern United States having reddish-brown plumage)
Holonyms ("thrasher" is a member of...):
genus Toxostoma; Toxostoma (thrashers)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A farm machine for separating seeds or grain from the husks and straw
Synonyms:
thrasher; thresher; threshing machine
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("thrasher" is a kind of...):
farm machine (a machine used in farming)
Derivation:
thrash (beat the seeds out of a grain)
