Library / English Dictionary

TIT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small insectivorous birds

Synonyms:

tit; titmouse

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("tit" is a kind of...):

oscine; oscine bird (passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tit"):

chickadee (any of various small grey-and-black songbirds of North America)

Parus bicolor; tufted titmouse (crested titmouse of eastern and midwestern United States)

blue tit; Parus caeruleus; tomtit (widely distributed European titmouse with bright cobalt blue wings and tail and crown of the head)

bush tit; bushtit (active grey titmice of western North America)

Chamaea fasciata; wren-tit (small brown bird of California resembling a wren)

Auriparus flaviceps; verdin (very small yellow-headed titmouse of western North America)

Holonyms ("tit" is a member of...):

family Paridae; Paridae (titmice and chickadees)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman

Synonyms:

boob; bosom; breast; knocker; tit; titty

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("tit" is a kind of...):

mamma; mammary gland (milk-secreting organ of female mammals)

Meronyms (parts of "tit"):

lactiferous duct (ducts of the mammary gland that carry milk to the nipple)

areola; ring of color (small circular area such as that around the human nipple or an inflamed area around a pimple or insect bite)

Holonyms ("tit" is a part of...):

adult female body; woman's body (the body of an adult woman)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The small projection of a mammary gland

Synonyms:

mamilla; mammilla; nipple; pap; teat; tit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("tit" is a kind of...):

reproductive organ; sex organ (any organ involved in sexual reproduction)

Holonyms ("tit" is a part of...):

mamma; mammary gland (milk-secreting organ of female mammals)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Great tits – a close relation of North America’s chickadee – make a good study species as they are generalist insectivores that forage in flocks, and are known to spread other forms of information through observation.

(Birds learn from each other’s ‘disgust’, enabling insects to evolve bright colours, University of Cambridge)