Crossword-Solution: ANSERES
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Anseres | n. pl. | A Linnaean order of aquatic birds swimming by means of webbed feet, as the duck, or of lobed feet, as the grebe. In this order were included the geese, ducks, auks, divers, gulls, petrels, etc. |
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ANSERES | anagram | ARSENES, SERENAS |
We have 4 clues for the answer “ANSERES”
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| Ducks, geese, swans, etc. | 1 answer |
| Suborder of geese. | 1 answer |
| Swans, ducks, geese, etc. | 1 answer |
| Geese. | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
RAEA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with ANSERES (5)
Etym: [L., duck.] (Zoöl.) Defn: A genus of water fowls, of the order Anseres, including certain species of fresh-water ducks.
See Lamella, and Rostrum.] (Zoöl.) Defn: A group of birds embracing the Anseres and flamingoes, in which the bill is lamellate.
Anseres, can hardly be said to "perch." Garrod went so far as to divide all the birds into _Homalogonatae_ and _Anomalogonatae_, according to the presence or absence of the ambiens muscle.
Mercerat, who proposed for them the name of _Stereornithes_, a new order of birds, mostly gigantic in size, and said to combine the characters of Anseres, Herodiones and Accipitres.
More or less cosmopolitan groups like herons, _Falconidae, Anseres, Columbae, &c._, and circumtropical families like _Parridae, Trogonidae, Capitonidae_, are to be excluded from these lists as indifferent.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1948–1985).