whitney

Noun whitney has 2 senses

• whitney(n = noun.person) eli whitney - United States inventor of the mechanical cotton gin (1765-1825);
is a kind of artificer, discoverer, inventor, manufacturer, producer

• whitney(n = noun.object) mount whitney - the highest peak in the Sierra Nevada range in California (14,494 feet high);
is a kind of mountain peak
is a part of high sierra, sierra nevada, sierra nevada mountains