Crossword-Solution: BLACKCOCK
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Blackcock | n. | The male of the European black grouse (Tetrao tetrix, Linn.); -- so called by sportsmen. The female is called gray hen. See Heath grouse. |
We have 8 clues for the answer “BLACKCOCK”
| Clue | Answers |
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| BLACK grouse, male | 1 answer |
| MALE black grouse | 1 answer |
| male of the black grouse | 1 answer |
| wood grouse | 1 answer |
| black grouse | 3 answers |
| capercaillie | 6 answers |
| Grouse | 38 answers |
| BRITISH bird | 58 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TREEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BLACKCOCK (5)
There was no sound but the lapping of the water against the boat, the cry of the blackcock from the hill, and the pleasant plash of a trout rising here and there.
There was a small swamp covered with grass and cranberries scattered through it, where the blackcock and sand partridges usually came to feed on the berries.
While I was surveying this scene, suddenly one of the blackcock jumped up and the rest of the frightened flock immediately flew away.
The ptarmigan, for instance, moults twice or even thrice in the year, and the blackcock only once: some of the splendidly coloured honey-suckers (Nectariniae) of India and some sub-genera of obscurely coloured pipits (Anthus) have a double, whilst others have only a single annual moult.
With the common blackbird, capercailzie, blackcock, black scoter-duck (Oidemia), and even with one of the birds of paradise (Lophorina atra), the males alone are black, whilst the females are brown or mottled; and there can hardly be a doubt that blackness in these cases has been a sexually selected character.