pinion
English Thesaurus
1. wing of a bird (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | wing, |
| definition | : | a movable organ for flying (one of a pair) (noun.animal) |
| part meronym | : | bird, |
| definition | : | warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings (noun.animal) |
2. any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird (noun.animal)
| hyponym | : | primary, primary feather, primary quill, |
| definition | : | one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | tail feather, |
| definition | : | feather growing from the tail (uropygium) of a bird (noun.animal) |
| part meronym | : | wing, |
| definition | : | a movable organ for flying (one of a pair) (noun.animal) |
3. a gear with a small number of teeth designed to mesh with a larger wheel or rack (noun.artifact)
| hypernym | : | cogwheel, gear, gear wheel, geared wheel, |
| definition | : | a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion (noun.artifact) |
| hyponym | : | lantern pinion, lantern wheel, |
| definition | : | a small pinion having cylindrical bars instead of teeth, used chiefly in inexpensive clocks (noun.artifact) |
4. cut the wings off (of birds) (verb.change)
| hypernym | : | disable, disenable, incapacitate, |
| definition | : | make unable to perform a certain action (verb.change) |
5. bind the arms of (verb.contact)
6. wing of a bird (noun.animal)
7. cut the wings off (of birds) (verb.change)
| derivation | : | flight feather, pinion, quill, quill feather, |
| definition | : | any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird (noun.animal) |
8. wing of a bird (noun.animal)
9. cut the wings off (of birds) (verb.change)
| derivation | : | flight feather, pinion, quill, quill feather, |
| definition | : | any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird (noun.animal) |
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