whistler
1. someone who makes a loud high sound • Derivationally related forms: whistle • Hypernyms: signaler, signaller 2. Australian and southeastern Asian birds with a melodious whistling call • Syn: thickhead • Hypernyms: Old World flycatcher, true flycatcher, flycatcher • Member Holonyms: Pachycephala, genus Pachycephala 3. large North American mountain marmot • Syn: hoary marmot, whistling marmot, Marmota caligata • Hypernyms: marmot 4. large-headed swift-flying diving duck of Arctic regions • Syn: goldeneye, Bucephela clangula • Hypernyms: duck • Hyponyms: Barrow's goldeneye, Bucephala islandica • Member Holonyms: Bucephala, genus Bucephala
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