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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. One that howls: a dog that is a persistent howler.
  2. n. A howler monkey.
  3. n. Slang A laughably stupid blunder.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. One who howls.
  2. n. A South American monkey of the family Cebidœ and subfamily Mycetinœ: as, the ursine howler, Mycetes ursinus. There are several species, so named from the extraordinary volume of their voice, due to a peculiar conformation of the laryngeal and hyoidean apparatus, which is enormously enlarged and excavated, functioning as a reverberator.
  3. n. A calling device employed in telephony in place of the magnetic call-bell; a buzzer.

Wiktionary

  1. n. That which howls, especially an animal which howls, such as a wolf or a howler monkey.
  2. n. A painfully obvious mistake.
  3. n. A hilarious joke.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. One who howls.
  2. n. (Zoöl.) Any South American monkey of the genus Mycetes. Many species are known. They are arboreal in their habits, and are noted for the loud, discordant howling in which they indulge at night.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. monkey of tropical South American forests having a loud howling cry
  2. n. a joke that seems extremely funny
  3. n. a glaring blunder

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hypernyms (19)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. new world monkey
  2. platyrrhine
  3. platyrrhinian
  1. laugh
  2. gag
  3. jape
  1. joke
  2. jest
  3. boo-boo
  1. fuckup
  2. bloomer
  3. foul-up
  1. pratfall
  2. blooper
  3. boner
  1. botch
  2. flub
  3. bungle
  1. blunder

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  2. rhesus
  3. big-eared
  1. short-tailed
  2. marmoset
  3. lower-ranking
  1. capuchin
  2. azmyth
  3. organ-grinder
  1. hurdy-gurdy
  2. repulsive-looking
  3. wired-up
  1. six-armed
  2. leaf-eating
  3. large-eared
  1. macaque
  2. god-cursed
  3. pink-eyed

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Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Fowler
  1. fowler
  1. prowler

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  1. araguato
  2. stentor
  1. araba
  2. alouatta
  1. mycetes
  2. alouate
  1. Beelzebub
  2. howling monkey
  1. mono
  2. howler
  1. platyrrhini
  2. superfamily platyrrhini
  1. genus alouatta
  2. ursine howler

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Words tagged ‘howler’

  1. araguato

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