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thrasher

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: thrasher

1
 n
thrush-like American songbird able to mimic other birdsongs
2
 n
a farm machine for separating seeds or grain from the husks and straw
3
 n
large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: thrasher
1

n thrush-like American songbird able to mimic other birdsongs

Synonyms:
mocking thrush
Types:
Toxostoma rufums, brown thrasher, brown thrush
common large songbird of eastern United States having reddish-brown plumage
Type of:
oscine, oscine bird
passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus
2

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

Synonyms:
thresher, threshing machine
Type of:
farm machine
a machine used in farming
3

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