THRASHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thrasher mean? 

• THRASHER (noun)
  The noun THRASHER has 3 senses:

1. a farm machine for separating seeds or grain from the husks and straw

2. thrush-like American songbird able to mimic other birdsongs

3. large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed

  Familiarity information: THRASHER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THRASHER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A farm machine for separating seeds or grain from the husks and straw

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

thrasher; thresher; threshing machine

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

farm machine (a machine used in farming)

Derivation:

thrash (beat the seeds out of a grain)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Thrush-like American songbird able to mimic other birdsongs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

mocking thrush; thrasher

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

oscine; oscine bird (passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus)

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

brown thrasher; brown thrush; Toxostoma rufums (common large songbird of eastern United States having reddish-brown plumage)

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

genus Toxostoma; Toxostoma (thrashers)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Alopius vulpinus; fox shark; thrasher; thresher; thresher shark

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

shark (any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales)

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

Alopius; genus Alopius (type genus of the family Alopiidae; in some classifications considered a genus of the family Lamnidae)