Defenition of the word dipper

• Defenition of the word dipper

  • a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major
  • small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage
  • a ladle that has a cup with a long handle
  • a cluster of seven stars in Ursa Minor; at the end of the dipper's handle is Polaris
  • small stocky diving bird without webbed feet; frequents fast-flowing streams and feeds along the bottom
  • a cluster of seven stars in Ursa Minor; at the end of the dipper''s handle is Polaris

Synonyms for the word dipper

• • Big Dipper
  • Bucephela albeola
  • bufflehead
  • butterball
  • Charles's Wain
  • cup
  • Dipper
  • ladle
  • Little Dipper
  • Plough
  • scoop
  • spoon
  • water ouzel

Similar words in the dipper

• • dipper
  • dipper's
  • dippers

Meronymys for the word dipper

• • Bucephala
  • Cinclidae
  • family Cinclidae
  • genus Bucephala
  • Great Bear
  • Little Bear
  • North Star
  • polar star
  • Polaris
  • polestar
  • Ursa Major
  • Ursa Minor

Hyponyms for the word dipper

• • American water ouzel
  • Cinclus aquaticus
  • Cinclus mexicanus
  • European water ouzel

Hypernyms for the word dipper

• • asterism
  • duck
  • ladle
  • oscine
  • oscine bird

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