Crossword-Solution: FANTAIL
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Fantail | n. | A variety of the domestic pigeon, so called from the shape of the tail. |
| Fantail | n. | Any bird of the Australian genus Rhipidura, in which the tail is spread in the form of a fan during flight. They belong to the family of flycatchers. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| FANTAIL | anagram | INAFLAT |
We have 21 clues for the answer “FANTAIL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Goldfish of a fancy breed. | 1 answer |
| variety Pigeon | 1 answer |
| small New Zealand bird with a tail like a fan | 1 answer |
| Variety of pigeon | 1 answer |
| Type of pigeon or goldfish | 1 answer |
| Split and flattened, as shrimp | 1 answer |
| Showy pigeon | 1 answer |
| Ship's aft area | 1 answer |
| Pigeon variety | 1 answer |
| Kind of boat design. | 1 answer |
| Jutting stern of a ship | 1 answer |
| Double-finned goldfish. | 1 answer |
| Cruise ship's stern | 1 answer |
| Shrimp style | 3 answers |
| Domestic pigeon. | 3 answers |
| COOING bird | 4 answers |
| Type of pigeon | 5 answers |
| Shrimp | 19 answers |
| PERCHING bird | 35 answers |
| AUSTRALIAN perching bird | 35 answers |
| Australian bird | 60 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with FANTAIL (5)
Nan Fantail, indeed!” “Nan's an honest girl, Madam Catherine, and was a great favourite of the Captain's before someone else came in his way.
The fantail has thirty or even forty tail-feathers, instead of twelve or fourteen, the normal number in all the members of the great pigeon family: these feathers are kept expanded and are carried so erect that in good birds the head and tail touch: the oil-gland is quite aborted.
Moreover, I do not believe that any ornithologist would in this case place the English carrier, the short-faced tumbler, the runt, the barb, pouter, and fantail in the same genus; more especially as in each of these breeds several truly-inherited sub-breeds, or species, as he would call them, could be shown him.
Thirdly, those characters which are mainly distinctive of each breed are in each eminently variable, for instance, the wattle and length of beak of the carrier, the shortness of that of the tumbler, and the number of tail-feathers in the fantail; and the explanation of this fact will be obvious when we treat of selection.
But to use such an expression as trying to make a fantail is, I have no doubt, in most cases, utterly incorrect.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1954–2014).