1.  hooker(n = noun.person) fighting joe hooker, joseph hooker - United States general in the Union Army who was defeated at Chancellorsville by Robert E. Lee (1814-1879);
is a kind of full general, general

2.  hooker(n = noun.person) richard hooker - English theologian (1554-1600);
is a kind of theologian, theologiser, theologist, theologizer

3.  hooker(n = noun.person) floozie, floozy, hustler, slattern, street girl, streetwalker - a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets;
is a kind of bawd, cocotte, cyprian, fancy woman, harlot, lady of pleasure, prostitute, sporting lady, tart, whore, woman of the street, working girl

4.  hooker(n = noun.person) - a golfer whose shots typically curve left (for right-handed golfers);
is a kind of golf player, golfer, linksman
Derived form verb hook₄

5.  hooker(n = noun.person) - (rugby) the player in the middle of the front row of the scrum who tries to capture the ball with the foot;
is a kind of athlete, jock

1.  One who, or that which, hooks. [1913 Webster]

2.  A Dutch vessel with two masts. [1913 Webster]

hooker, n.
1 Rugby Football the player in the middle of the front row of the scrum who tries to hook the ball.
2 sl. a prostitute.
3 a person or thing that hooks.

hooker, n.
1 a small Dutch or Irish fishing-vessel.
2 derog. any ship.

Etymology:
Du. hoeker f. hoek HOOK

N  ship, vessel, sail, craft, bottom, navy, marine, fleet, flotilla, shipping, man of war, transport, tender, storeship, merchant ship, merchantman, packet, liner, whaler, slaver, collier, coaster, lighter, fishing boat, pilot boat, trawler, hulk, yacht, baggala, floating hotel, floating palace, ocean greyhound, ship, bark, barque, brig, snow, hermaphrodite brig, brigantine, barkantine, schooner, topsail schooner, for and aft schooner, three masted schooner, chasse-maree, sloop, cutter, corvette, clipper, foist, yawl, dandy, ketch, smack, lugger, barge, hoy, cat, buss, sailer, sailing vessel, windjammer, steamer, steamboat, steamship, liner, ocean liner, cruiseship, ship of the line, mail steamer, paddle steamer, screw steamer, tug, line of steamers, destroyer, cruiser, frigate, landing ship, LST, aircraft carrier, carrier, flattop, nuclear powered carrier, submarine, submersible, atomic submarine, boat, pinnace, launch, life boat, long boat, jolly boat, bum boat, fly boat, cock boat, ferry boat, canal boat, swamp boat, ark, bully, battery, bateau, broadhorn, dory, droger, drogher, dugout, durham boat, flatboat, galiot, shallop, gig, funny, skiff, dingy, scow, cockleshell, wherry, coble, punt, cog, kedge, lerret, eight oar, four oar, pair oar, randan, outrigger, float, raft, pontoon, prame, iceboat, ice canoe, ice yacht, catamaran, hydroplane, hovercraft, coracle, gondola, carvel, caravel, felucca, caique, canoe, birch bark canoe, dugout canoe, galley, galleyfoist, bilander, dogger, hooker, howker, argosy, carack, galliass, galleon, polacca, polacre, tartane, junk, lorcha, praam, proa, prahu, saick, sampan, xebec, dhow, dahabeah, nuggah, kayak, keel boat, log canoe, pirogue, quadrireme, trireme, stern-wheeler, wanigan, wangan, wharf boat, balloon, airship, aeroplane, biplane, monoplane, triplane, hydroplane, aerodrome, air balloon, pilot balloon, fire balloon, dirigible, zeppelin, aerostat, Montgolfier, kite, parachute, jet plane, rocket plane, jet liner, turbojet, prop-jet, propeller plane, corporate plane, corporate jet, private plane, private aviation, airline, common carrier, fighter, bomber, fighter-bomber, escort plane, spy plane, supersonic aircraft, subsonic aircraft, afloat, aboard, on board, on ship board, hard a lee, hard a port, hard a starboard, hard a weather.

fighting joe hooker, joseph hooker, richard hooker

   orchid(n = noun.plant) orchidaceous plant - any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors;
is a kind of flower
has parts: mentum, mentum
is a member of family orchidaceae, orchid family, orchidaceae
has particulars: orchis, aerides, angrecum, jewel orchid, adam-and-eve, aplectrum hyemale, puttyroot, arethusa, bletia, bletia striata, bletilla striata, brassavola, brassia lawrenceana, spider orchid, brassia verrucosa, spider orchid, caladenia, calanthe, calopogon pulchellum, calopogon tuberosum, grass pink, calypso, calypso bulbosa, fairy-slipper, catasetum macrocarpum, jumping orchid, cattleya, helleborine, cleistes divaricata, funnel-crest rosebud orchid, pogonia divaricata, spreading pogonia, cleistes rosea, pogonia rosea, rosebud orchid, coeloglossum bracteatum, satyr orchid, coeloglossum viride, frog orchid, coelogyne, coral root, helmet orchid, helmetflower, swan-flower, swan-neck, swan orchid, swanflower, swanneck, cymbid, cymbidium, cypripedia, ladies' slipper, lady's slipper, lady-slipper, slipper orchid, marsh orchid, common spotted orchid, dactylorhiza fuchsii, dactylorhiza maculata fuchsii, dendrobium, disa, eburophyton austinae, phantom orchid, snow orchid, cattleya citrina, encyclia citrina, tulip orchid, butterfly orchid, encyclia tampensis, epidendrum tampense, butterfly orchid, butterfly orchis, encyclia venosa, epidendrum venosum, epidendron, helleborine, tongue-flower, tongueflower, helleborine, rattlesnake plantain, fragrant orchid, gymnadenia conopsea, gymnadenia odoratissima, short-spurred fragrant orchid, fringed orchid, fringed orchis, frog orchid, rein orchid, rein orchis, crested coral root, hexalectris spicata, hexalectris warnockii, texas purple spike, himantoglossum hircinum, lizard orchid, laelia, liparis, twayblade, fen orchid, fen orchis, liparis loeselii, broad-leaved twayblade, listera convallarioides, lesser twayblade, listera cordata, listera ovata, twayblade, green adder's mouth, malaxis-unifolia, malaxis ophioglossoides, masdevallia, maxillaria, pansy orchid, odontoglossum, butterfly orchid, butterfly plant, dancing lady orchid, oncidium, bee orchid, ophrys apifera, fly orchid, ophrys insectifera, ophrys muscifera, spider orchid, venus' slipper, venus's shoe, venus's slipper, phaius, moth orchid, moth plant, rattlesnake orchid, habenaria bifolia, lesser butterfly orchid, platanthera bifolia, greater butterfly orchid, habenaria chlorantha, platanthera chlorantha, platanthera leucophea, prairie white-fringed orchid, tangle orchid, indian crocus, pleurothallis, pogonia, butterfly orchid, greenhood, helmet orchid, foxtail orchid, orange-blossom orchid, sarcochilus falcatus, sobralia, ladies' tresses, lady's tresses, stanhopea, stelis, fly orchid, vanda, vanilla

   Any plant of the order Orchidaceæ. See Orchidaceous. [1913 Webster]

orchid, n.
1 any usu. epiphytic plant of the family Orchidaceae, bearing flowers in fantastic shapes and brilliant colours, usu. having one petal larger than the others and variously spurred, lobed, pouched, etc.
2 a flower of any of these plants.

Derivative:
orchidaceous adj. orchidist n. orchidology n.

Etymology:
mod.L Orchid(ac)eae irreg. f. L orchis: see ORCHIS

alaska rein orchid, bee orchid, blue orchid, bog rein orchid, butterfly orchid, coastal rein orchid, common spotted orchid, dancing lady orchid, early purple orchid, early spider orchid, fen orchid, fly orchid, foxtail orchid, fragrant orchid, fringed orchid, frog orchid, funnel-crest rosebud orchid, greater butterfly orchid, helmet orchid, hooker's orchid, jewel orchid, jumping orchid, lesser butterfly orchid, lizard orchid, marsh orchid, moth orchid, orange-blossom orchid, orchid cactus, orchid family, orchid tree, pansy orchid, phantom orchid, poor man's orchid, prairie orchid, prairie white-fringed orchid, purple fringeless orchid, purple-fringed orchid, ragged orchid, ragged-fringed orchid, rattlesnake orchid, rein orchid, rosebud orchid, round-leaved rein orchid, satyr orchid, short-spurred fragrant orchid, slipper orchid, snow orchid, snowy orchid, spider orchid, stream orchid, swan orchid, tangle orchid, tulip orchid, vanilla orchid, water orchid, white fringed orchid, zebra orchid