cub
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
an awkward and inexperienced youth
Types & categories
- initiate hypernym
Sense 2 verb
give birth to cubs
bears cub every year
Types & categories
- birth hypernym
Related & opposite
- young carnivore derivation
Sense 3 noun
a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy)
Types & categories
- boy hypernym
Sense 4 noun
the young of certain carnivorous mammals such as the bear or wolf or lion
Types & categories
- young mammal hypernym
- lion cub hyponym
- bear cub hyponym
- tiger cub hyponym
Related & opposite
- cub derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | initiate |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | young carnivore |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | birth |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | boy |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | cub |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | young mammal |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | lion cub |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | bear cub |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | tiger cub |