whooper
/ˈhuːpə
/ /ˈwuːpə/(also whooper swan)
noun
A large migratory swan with a black and yellow bill and a loud trumpeting call, breeding in northern Eurasia and Greenland.
- Cygnus cygnus, family Anatidae.
- Fewer than a dozen of those whoopers continue to migrate with their adoptive parents, but none of them has yet produced offspring.
- One whooper and five Bewick's swans have been fitted with transmitters which will enable them to be visibly tracked by satellite and followed online.
Rhymes
- -metrically
- metricate
- metrication
- metric crown
- metric demy
- metric geometry
- metric hundredweight
- metricist
- metricize
- metricized
- metric mile
- metric royal
- metric space
- metric system
- metric ton
- metric tonne
- metrification
- metrifonate
- metrify
- metriphonate
- metrisability
- metrisable
- metrisation
- metrise
- metrist