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grenadier

About 0.33 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A type of soldier, originally one who threw grenades, later a member of a company formed from the tallest men of the regiment; now specifically, a member of the Grenadier Guards of Canada and the United Kingdom.
  2. noun Any of various African weaverbirds or waxbills, especially the common grenadier or the red bishop.
  3. noun Any of various deep-sea fish of the family Macrouridae that have a large head and body and a long tapering tail; a rattail.
  4. noun Either of two red and black libellulid dragonflies, Agrionoptera insignis and Lathrecista asiatica, of Asia and Australia.

Similar words

rattail grenade thrower rattail fish bedrock rock pomeranian lobber roughhead grenado granade

Often followed by

guards regiment division company and of companies battalion divisions

Word family

grenadiers

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