|
  • Search Results
  • Advanced Search
  • List Builder
  • Random Word

whistler

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: whistler

1
 n
someone who makes a loud high sound
2
 n
large-headed swift-flying diving duck of Arctic regions
3
 n
large North American mountain marmot
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: whistler
1

n someone who makes a loud high sound

Type of:
signaler, signaller
someone who communicates by signals

n Australian and southeastern Asian birds with a melodious whistling call

Synonyms:
thickhead
Type of:
Old World flycatcher, flycatcher, true flycatcher
any of a large group of small songbirds that feed on insects taken on the wing
2

n large-headed swift-flying diving duck of Arctic regions

Synonyms:
Bucephela clangula, goldeneye
Types:
Barrow's goldeneye, Bucephala islandica
North American goldeneye diving duck
Type of:
duck
small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs
3

n large North American mountain marmot

Synonyms:
Marmota caligata, hoary marmot, whistling marmot
Type of:
marmot
stocky coarse-furred burrowing rodent with a short bushy tail found throughout the northern hemisphere; hibernates in winter
Launch
WORD FAMILY
USAGE EXAMPLES