thrasher

English Thesaurus

1. large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	shark,
definition	:	any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	alopius, genus alopius,
definition	:	type genus of the family Alopiidae; in some classifications considered a genus of the family Lamnidae (noun.animal)

2. thrush-like American songbird able to mimic other birdsongs (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	oscine, oscine bird,
definition	:	passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	brown thrasher, brown thrush, toxostoma rufums,
definition	:	common large songbird of eastern United States having reddish-brown plumage (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	genus toxostoma, toxostoma,
definition	:	thrashers (noun.animal)

3. a farm machine for separating seeds or grain from the husks and straw (noun.artifact)

hypernym	:	farm machine,
definition	:	a machine used in farming (noun.artifact)

derivation	:	thrash, thresh,
definition	:	beat the seeds out of a grain (verb.contact)

derivation	:	thrash, thresh,
definition	:	beat the seeds out of a grain (verb.contact)