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WHISTLER

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Australian and southeastern Asian birds with a melodious whistling call

Synonyms:

thickhead; whistler

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

flycatcher; Old World flycatcher; true flycatcher (any of a large group of small songbirds that feed on insects taken on the wing)

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

genus Pachycephala; Pachycephala (arboreal insectivorous birds)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Large-headed swift-flying diving duck of Arctic regions

Synonyms:

Bucephela clangula; goldeneye; whistler

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

duck (small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs)

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

Barrow's goldeneye; Bucephala islandica (North American goldeneye diving duck)

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

Bucephala; genus Bucephala (buffleheads and goldeneyes)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Large North American mountain marmot

Synonyms:

hoary marmot; Marmota caligata; whistler; whistling marmot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

marmot (stocky coarse-furred burrowing rodent with a short bushy tail found throughout the northern hemisphere; hibernates in winter)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Someone who makes a loud high sound

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

signaler; signaller (someone who communicates by signals)

Derivation:

whistle (utter or express by whistling)

whistle (make whistling sounds)

Sense 5

Meaning:

United States painter (1834-1903)

Synonyms:

James Abbott McNeill Whistler; Whistler

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

painter (an artist who paints)

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