Crossword-Solution: DUCKBILL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Duckbill | n. | See Duck mole, under Duck, n. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “DUCKBILL”
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| Avoid President Clinton? | 1 answer |
| monotreme | 2 answers |
| Platypus feature | 3 answers |
| platypus | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with DUCKBILL (5)
The monotremes,--such as the duckbill mole and the spiny ant-eater of Australia, reproduce by means of eggs resembling those of reptiles; the marsupials, such as the opossum and the kangaroo, bring forth their young alive, but in a very immature condition, and carry them for some time after birth in the marsupium, a pouch on the ventral side of the body.
Gifts of birds'-nests, eggs, ferns, orchids in flower, a cassowary chick, neat dilly-bags, gay with crude Pigments, were brought to the house with messages such as this: “That fella 'Pad-oo-byer' he bin gib'em alonga 'Ky-ee-rah.'” “Ky-ee-rah” (the evening star) had been proclaimed to be Soosie's totemic name, and “Pad-oo-byer” we knew as “Duckbill,” because of a fancied resemblance to a platypus.
Duckbill intercepted me on the edge of the clearing one morning especially to propound the law of the land.
Him want sit down alonga camp.” The bald proposition shook me, for I could not but see the logic of it from Duckbill's standpoint.
Duckbill, who was unable to comprehend that he and others of the camp had by abandonment forfeited all rights to Soosie and that she was now a “white Mary,” made it plain that he would forcibly abduct her if I would but give him the slight assistance of expulsion.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (2003–2016).