Crossword-Solution: ESOX
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Esox | n. | A genus of fresh-water fishes, including pike and pickerel. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ESOX | anagram | OXES, SEXO |
We have 9 clues for the answer “ESOX”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Genus of freshwater fish | 1 answer |
| Genus of pickerel. | 1 answer |
| Genus of pike, pickerel, etc. | 1 answer |
| JACK fish (genus) | 1 answer |
| PIKE fish (genus) | 1 answer |
| Pickerel genus | 1 answer |
| Pickerels' genus | 1 answer |
| Pike and pickerel genus | 1 answer |
| fish freshwater | 7 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 ESOX (5)
Certain genera, such as carp, perch, pike, and loach (_Cyprinus, Perca, Esox,_ and _Cobitis_), as also _Lebias,_ being peculiar to fresh-water.
The Pickerel, _Esox reticulatus_, the swiftest, wariest, and most ravenous of fishes, which Josselyn calls the Fresh-Water or River Wolf, is very common in the shallow and weedy lagoons along the sides of the stream.
The intestines of the _Mahaseer_ are on the other hand only two and a quarter times the length of the body! Of the fish obtained, two are Perilamps, here called _Rohi_, 5 or 6 Cyprinides, 4 or 5 Siluri, 2 Ophiocephali, 1 Esox.
The saint, desirous of affording them a pleasant surprise, directs them to cast their net where a wonderful fish was prepared for them; and they drag out an "esox" (whatever that may mean) of wonderful size.
The fish is, in a word, the great pike (Esox nobilior), and it is to all intents and purposes possessed of the general characteristics of the Esocidae family.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1947–1985).