Crossword-Solution: CASSOWARY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Cassowary | n. | A large bird, of the genus Casuarius, found in the east Indies. It is smaller and stouter than the ostrich. Its head is armed with a kind of helmet of horny substance, consisting of plates overlapping each other, and it has a group of long sharp spines on each wing which are used as defensive organs. It is a shy bird, and runs with great rapidity. Other species inhabit New Guinea, Australia, etc. |
We have 20 clues for the answer “CASSOWARY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| large black flightless bird of Australia and New Guinea having a horny head crest | 1 answer |
| Very large flightless bird related to the Emu and native of New Guinea | 1 answer |
| EMU-like bird | 1 answer |
| Large, flightless bird native to Australia and New Guinea | 1 answer |
| Flightless bird related to emu | 1 answer |
| NEW Guinea flightless bird | 1 answer |
| AUSTRALIAN bird, flightless | 2 answers |
| AUSTRALIAN flightless bird | 2 answers |
| NEW Guinea bird | 3 answers |
| emu | 3 answers |
| FLIGHTLESS running bird | 3 answers |
| EMU relative | 3 answers |
| RAINFOREST bird | 4 answers |
| RUNNING bird | 4 answers |
| Large flightless bird | 6 answers |
| Nonflying bird | 7 answers |
| OSTRICH-like bird | 10 answers |
| Flightless bird | 24 answers |
| Australian bird | 60 answers |
| "Bird" | 138 answers |
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Sentences with CASSOWARY (5)
This reflection affords them peculiar satisfaction when they go out to fight, or to run away, as the case may be; for at such times a Cassowary man will say to himself, "My leg is long and thin, I can run and not feel tired; my legs will go quickly and the grass will not entangle them." Members of the Cassowary clan are reputed to be pugnacious, because the cassowary is a bird of very uncertain temper and can kick with extreme violence.
Wood, T.W., on the colouring of the orange-tip butterfly; on the habits of the Saturniidae; quarrels of chamaeleons; on the habits of Menura Alberti; on Tetrao cupido; on the display of plumage by male pheasants; on the ocellated spots of the Argus pheasant; on fighting of Menura superba; on the habits of the female cassowary.
This bird is the helmeted cassowary (Casuarius galeatus) of naturalists, and was for a long time the only species known.
For these latter, however, they prefer brass wire, or the black, horny, wing-spines of the cassowary, which they consider a charm.
The only ornaments in an Aru horse are trophies of the chase--jaws of wild pigs, the heads and backbones of cassowaries, and plumes made from the feathers of the Bird of Paradise, cassowary, and domestic fowl.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1977).