pruning hook

Questions about pruning hook

What is another word for pruning hook?

It depends which pruning hook you mean. In the sense “a long-handled pruning saw with a curved blade at the end and sometimes a clipper; used to prune small trees”, the synonyms are pruner, lopper. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of pruning hook?

WordNet records no antonym for pruning hook. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for pruning hook come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of pruning hook

• Full entry for pruning hookAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for pruning hookWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.