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What is a grenadier?

What is a grenadier? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. 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.
  2. Any of various African weaverbirds or waxbills, especially the common grenadier or the red bishop.
  3. Any of various deep-sea fish of the family Macrouridae that have a large head and body and a long tapering tail; a rattail.
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The grenadier company of a line infantry battalion was paraded on the right of the line, the place of honour accorded to its status.
Led by Colonel Phillips, it included one grenadier company and nine fusilier companies, in all 33 officers and 400 soldiers.
Chancellor Bismarck once famously remarked that the whole of the Balkans were not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier.
By-catches of roundnose grenadier and black scabbard to be counted against this quota.
Most of the other marines had taken up positions in barracks or in the cratered remains of bunkers destroyed by their grenadier.
The Pacific slope-dwelling grenadier respires at one hundredth the rate of its distant relative, the Atlantic cod.

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