Crossword-Solution: ARGALA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Argala | n. | The adjutant bird. |
We have 12 clues for the answer “ARGALA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Adjutant stork | 1 answer |
| Indian stork | 2 answers |
| India bird | 2 answers |
| AFRICAN stork | 3 answers |
| marabou | 4 answers |
| stork | 6 answers |
| bird stork like | 10 answers |
| bird India | 12 answers |
| Adjutant. | 14 answers |
| adjutant bird | 14 answers |
| INDIAN bird | 24 answers |
| Asia bird | 28 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ARGALA (4)
One of the distinctive characteristics of the adjutant, or "argala," as it is better known to the Indians,--and one, too, of its ugliest "features,"--is a naked neck of a flesh-red colour the skin shrivelled, corrugated, and covered with brownish hairs.
Another great stork--differing both from the _argala_ of Asia and the _marabou_ of Africa--inhabits the Island of Sumatra.
The consequence was, that, from that time, Fritz had conceived a most rancorous antipathy towards all birds of the genus _Ciconia_--and the species _Argala_ in particular; and this it was that impelled him, on first perceiving the adjutant--for being by the hut on their arrival he had not seen them before,--to rush open-mouthed towards them, and seize the tail of one of them between his teeth.
But the most dignified was the _Argala_, or “Adjutant,” a wading bird, not unlike the stork, especially in its preference for human society.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1970).