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WITHERS

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The highest part of the back at the base of the neck of various animals especially draft animals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

body part (any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity)

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

Equus caballus; horse (solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times)

ox (an adult castrated bull of the genus Bos; especially Bos taurus)

sheep (woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat)

cervid; deer (distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Present simple (third person singular) of the verb wither

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