GRENADE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A small explosive bomb thrown by hand or fired from a missile

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

bomb (an explosive device fused to explode under specific conditions)

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

hand grenade (a grenade designed to be thrown by hand)

rifle grenade (a grenade that is thrown from a launching device attached to the barrel of a rifle)