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WETHER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Male sheep especially a castrated one
Classified under:
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)