dipper

English Thesaurus

1. small stocky diving bird without webbed feet; frequents fast-flowing streams and feeds along the bottom (noun.animal)

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

hyponym	:	cinclus aquaticus, european water ouzel,
definition	:	a water ouzel of Europe (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	american water ouzel, cinclus mexicanus,
definition	:	a water ouzel of western North America (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	cinclidae, family cinclidae,
definition	:	water ouzels (noun.animal)

2. small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	duck,
definition	:	small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	bucephala, genus bucephala,
definition	:	buffleheads and goldeneyes (noun.animal)

3. a ladle that has a cup with a long handle (noun.artifact)

hypernym	:	ladle,
definition	:	a spoon-shaped vessel with a long handle; frequently used to transfer liquids from one container to another (noun.artifact)

4. a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major (noun.object)

instance hypernym	:	asterism,
definition	:	(astronomy) a cluster of stars (or a small constellation) (noun.object)

part meronym	:	great bear, ursa major,
definition	:	a constellation outside the zodiac that rotates around the North Star (noun.object)

5. a cluster of seven stars in Ursa Minor; at the end of the dipper's handle is Polaris (noun.object)

instance hypernym	:	asterism,
definition	:	(astronomy) a cluster of stars (or a small constellation) (noun.object)

part meronym	:	little bear, ursa minor,
definition	:	a constellation outside the zodiac that rotates around the North Star (noun.object)

member holonym	:	north star, polar star, polaris, pole star, polestar,
definition	:	the brightest star in Ursa Minor; at the end of the handle of the Little Dipper; the northern axis of the earth points toward it (noun.object)

6. a ladle that has a cup with a long handle (noun.artifact)

derivation	:	dip, dunk,
definition	:	dip into a liquid while eating (verb.consumption)

derivation	:	dip, douse, dunk, plunge, souse,
definition	:	immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate (verb.contact)

derivation	:	dip, dunk,
definition	:	dip into a liquid while eating (verb.consumption)

derivation	:	dip, douse, dunk, plunge, souse,
definition	:	immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate (verb.contact)