NOUN | person | Whistler, James Abbott McNeill Whistler | United States painter (1834-1903) |
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person | whistler | someone who makes a loud high sound | |
animal | whistler, hoary marmot, whistling marmot, Marmota caligata | large North American mountain marmot | |
animal | whistler, goldeneye, Bucephela clangula | large-headed swift-flying diving duck of Arctic regions | |
animal | whistler, thickhead | Australian and southeastern Asian birds with a melodious whistling call |
Sounds | hhwih'sler; wih'sler | |
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Rhymes | alveolar ... Ziegler: 240 rhymes with ler... |
Meaning | United States painter (1834-1903). | |
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Synonym | James Abbott McNeill Whistler | |
Instance of | painter | An artist who paints / paints |
Spanish | James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Whistler | |
Catalan | James McNeill Whistler |
Meaning | someone who makes a loud high sound. | |
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Broader | signaler, signaller | someone who communicates by signals |
Verbs | whistle | utter or express by whistling |
whistle | make whistling sounds |
Meaning | large North American mountain marmot. | |
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Synonyms | hoary marmot, whistling marmot, Marmota caligata | |
Broader | marmot | Stocky coarse-furred burrowing rodent with a short bushy tail found throughout the northern hemisphere |
Meaning | large-headed swift-flying diving duck of Arctic regions. | |
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Synonyms | goldeneye, Bucephela clangula | |
Member of | Bucephala, genus Bucephala | buffleheads and goldeneyes |
Narrower | Barrow's goldeneye, Bucephala islandica | North American goldeneye diving duck |
Broader | duck | small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs |
Spanish | porrón | |
Catalan | morell d'ulls grocs |
Meaning | Australian and southeastern Asian birds with a melodious whistling call. | |
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Synonym | thickhead | |
Member of | Pachycephala, genus Pachycephala | arboreal insectivorous birds |
Broader | Old World flycatcher, true flycatcher, flycatcher | Any of a large group of small songbirds that feed on insects taken on the wing |
Spanish | leño, mostrenco, rola | |
Catalan | enze, idiota |
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