English dictionary
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English noun: dipper | |||
| 1. | dipper (artifact) a ladle that has a cup with a long handle | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | ladle | ||
| 2. | Dipper (object) a cluster of seven stars in Ursa Minor; at the end of the dipper's handle is Polaris | ||
| Synonyms | Little Dipper | ||
| Instance hypernym | asterism | ||
| Part meronym | Little Bear, Ursa Minor | ||
| Member holonym | North Star, polar star, Polaris, pole star, polestar | ||
| 3. | Dipper (object) a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major | ||
| Synonyms | Big Dipper, Charles's Wain, Plough, Wagon, Wain | ||
| Instance hypernym | asterism | ||
| Part meronym | Great Bear, Ursa Major | ||
| 4. | dipper (animal) small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage | ||
| Synonyms | Bucephela albeola, bufflehead, butterball | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | duck | ||
| Member meronym | Bucephala, genus Bucephala | ||
| 5. | dipper (animal) small stocky diving bird without webbed feet; frequents fast-flowing streams and feeds along the bottom | ||
| Synonyms | water ouzel | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | oscine, oscine bird | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | American water ouzel, Cinclus aquaticus, Cinclus mexicanus, European water ouzel | ||
| Member meronym | Cinclidae, family Cinclidae | ||
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