English noun: thresher | |||
1. | thresher (artifact) a farm machine for separating seeds or grain from the husks and straw | ||
Synonyms | thrasher, threshing machine | ||
Broader (hypernym) | farm machine | ||
2. | thresher (animal) large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed | ||
Synonyms | Alopius vulpinus, fox shark, thrasher, thresher shark | ||
Broader (hypernym) | shark | ||
Member meronym | Alopius, genus Alopius | ||