Crossword-Solution: GRUS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| GRUS | anagram | RUGS, SURG |
We have 7 clues for the answer “GRUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Constellation, the Crane. | 1 answer |
| Crane constellation. | 1 answer |
| Southern constellation resembling a crane. | 1 answer |
| type genus of the Gruidae: typical cranes | 1 answer |
| crane, bird | 13 answers |
| Southern constellation | 23 answers |
| Constellation. | 60 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EERAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with GRUS (5)
Blyth informs me that the convolutions are not constantly present, so that perhaps they are now tending towards abortion.) In both sexes of one of the cranes (Grus virgo) the trachea penetrates the sternum, but presents “certain sexual modifications.” In the male of the black stork there is also a well-marked sexual difference in the length and curvature of the bronchi.
Thus the Ibis tantalus and Grus americanus take four years, the Flamingo several years, and the Ardea ludovicana two years, before they acquire their perfect plumage.
Leaving the creek the next morning by starlight, I passed large flocks of geese and ducks, while Whooping-cranes (Grus Americanus) and Sand- hill cranes (Grus Canadensis), in little flocks, dotted the grassy prairies, or flew from one swamp to another, filling the air with their startling cries.
Give us two rooms, a fire, and some brandy as soon as possible, and charge what you please." When Grus viewed himself in the mirror, as he at once did from long habit, his haggard face, drenched, mud-splashed form, awakened sincere self-commiseration; and his stained, bedraggled clothes troubled him more than his soiled character.
The beautiful jabiru, or gigantic crane, is equally at home in some lonely waterhole in the far west and at the head of a coast swamp; so, too, the GRUS AUSTRALIS, or native companion, and the quaint and rich-plumaged ibis.
Quotes with GRUS (1)
The tallest slugger touched my forehead, and I ignited like a sparkler on the Fourth of July. Shards of dazzling light rippled under my skin. I was the constellation Grus. The Trifid Nebula. I was the Big Bang, expanding endlessly through time and space forever." I thought I was dying. That I was going to expire on a cold slab, trapped inside an UFO, my body filled with every light that had ever existed. I couldn't imagine a better way to die.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1958–1968).