grenadier

Meaning

Noun

• A type of soldier, originally one who threw grenades, later a member of a company formed from the tallest men of the regiment; now specifically, a member of the Grenadier Guards of Canada and the United Kingdom.
• Any of various African weaverbirds or waxbills, especially the common grenadier or the red bishop.
• Any of various deep-sea fish of the family Macrouridae that have a large head and body and a long tapering tail; a rattail.
• Either of two red and black libellulid dragonflies, Agrionoptera insignis (species) and Lathrecista asiatica (species), of Asia and Australia.

Origin

• From French grenadier, corresponding to grenade + -ier.