English noun: thrasher | |||
1. | thrasher (artifact) a farm machine for separating seeds or grain from the husks and straw | ||
Synonyms | thresher, threshing machine | ||
Broader (hypernym) | farm machine | ||
2. | thrasher (animal) thrush-like American songbird able to mimic other birdsongs | ||
Synonyms | mocking thrush | ||
Broader (hypernym) | oscine, oscine bird | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | brown thrasher, brown thrush, Toxostoma rufums | ||
Member meronym | genus Toxostoma, Toxostoma | ||
3. | thrasher (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, thresher, thresher shark | ||
Broader (hypernym) | shark | ||
Member meronym | Alopius, genus Alopius | ||