grenadier

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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.
Any of various African weaverbirds or waxbills, especially the common grenadier or the red bishop.
Any of various deep-sea fish of the family Macrouridae that have a large head and body and a long tapering tail; a rattail.
Either of two red and black libellulid dragonflies, Agrionoptera insignis and Lathrecista asiatica, of Asia and Australia.

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grenadier grenadiers

From French grenadier, corresponding to grenade + -ier.

giant grenadier Gray's grenadier anchovy roundnose grenadier

Finnish: piispa Finnish: sinipeippo (grenadier)

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