WETHER

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Male sheep especially a castrated one

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("wether" is a kind of...):

sheep (woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wether"):

bellwether (sheep that leads the herd often wearing a bell)

Holonyms ("wether" is a member of...):

genus Ovis; Ovis (sheep)

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