Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun croup

2 senses of croup

Sense 1
croup, spasmodic laryngitis -- (a disease of infants and young children; harsh coughing and hoarseness and fever and difficult breathing)
       => angina -- (any disease of the throat or fauces marked by spasmodic attacks of intense suffocative pain)

Sense 2
hindquarters, croup, croupe, rump -- (the part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks)
       => body part -- (any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity)