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THRESHER

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Dictionary entry overview: What does thresher mean?

• THRESHER (noun)
The noun THRESHER has 2 senses:

1. a farm machine for separating seeds or grain from the husks and straw
2. large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed

Familiarity information: THRESHER used as a noun is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• THRESHER (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

thrasher; thresher; threshing machine

Hypernyms ("thresher" is a kind of...):

farm machine (a machine used in farming)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

Large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Alopius vulpinus; fox shark; thresher shark; thresher; thrasher

Hypernyms ("thresher" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("thresher" is a member of...):

Alopius; genus Alopius (type genus of the family Alopiidae; in some classifications considered a genus of the family Lamnidae)

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