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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:
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:
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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