Crossword-Solution: IBIS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ibis | n. | Any bird of the genus Ibis and several allied genera, of the family Ibidae, inhabiting both the Old World and the New. Numerous species are known. They are large, wading birds, having a long, curved beak, and feed largely on reptiles. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| IBIS | anagram | SIBI |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with IBIS (5)
There was likewise the sacred ibis of Egypt, and one of the Stymphalides which Hercules shot in his sixth labor.
The Ibis, which is represented with human hands and feet, bears the staff of Isis in one hand and the cross in the other.
Callimachus attacks Apollonius in the passage at the end of the _Hymn to Apollo_, already mentioned, also probably in some epigrams, but most of all in his _Ibis_, of which we have an imitation, or perhaps nearly a translation, in Ovid’s poem of the same name.
There was food in abundance at this place--raspberries, bananas, and mangoes grew in profusion; whilst the marshes were inhabited by vast flocks of geese, ducks, white ibis, and other wild-fowl.
The experiments of nature made clear to him the relation of cause and effect, but it is not likely, as Pliny suggests, that he picked up his earliest knowledge from the observation of certain practices in animals, as the natural phlebotomy of the plethoric hippopotamus, or the use of emetics from the dog, or the use of enemata from the ibis.
Quotes with IBIS (2)
It doesn't matter that you didn't believe in us," said Mr. Ibis. "We believed in you.
Every creature on earth returns to home. It is ironic that we have made wildlife refuges for ibis, pelican, egret, wolf, crane, deer, mouse, moose, and bear, but not for ourselves in the places we live day after day. We understand that the loss of habitat is the most disastrous event that can occur to a free creauture. We fervently point out how other creatures' natural territories have become surrounded by cities, ranches, highways, noise, and other dissonance, as though we …
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 847 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).