CROUP

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks

Synonyms:

croup; croupe; hindquarters; rump

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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)

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)