whistler

English

Noun

Wikipedia whistler (plural whistlers)

1. Someone or something that whistles.
2. A bird that whistles (applied regionally to various specific species).
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.xii:

     The lether-winged Bat, dayes enimy, / The ruefull Strich, still waiting on the bere, / The Whistler shrill, that who so heares, doth dy [...].

3. A whistling marmot.
4. A goldeneye.
5. (physics) An audio-frequency electromagnetic wave produced by atmospheric disturbances such as lightning.

Synonyms

• (whistling marmot): hoary marmot

Translations

someone or something that whistles

• Finnish: viheltäjä (fi) (man or animal), vihellin (fi) (device)

whistling marmot — see hoary marmot

goldeneye

• Finnish: telkkä (fi)

physics: audio-frequency electromagnetic wave

• Finnish: matalataajuinen radioaalto (fi)