Crossword-Solution: JACAMAR
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Jacamar | n. | Any one of numerous species of tropical American birds of the genus Galbula and allied genera. They are allied to the kingfishers, but climb on tree trunks like nuthatches, and feed upon insects. Their colors are often brilliant. |
We have 20 clues for the answer “JACAMAR”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Green-plumed tropical bird | 1 answer |
| tropical American bird with an iridescent plumage | 1 answer |
| WOODPECKER relative | 1 answer |
| Tropical, insect-eating bird | 1 answer |
| Puffbird relative | 1 answer |
| PUFF-bird-like bird | 1 answer |
| Long-billed tropical bird. | 1 answer |
| Iridescent-plumed bird | 1 answer |
| Iridescent green bird of tropical America | 1 answer |
| SOUTH American tropical bird | 2 answers |
| Central America bird | 6 answers |
| AMERICAN tropical bird | 12 answers |
| bird tropical | 14 answers |
| bird Central America | 16 answers |
| BIRD of plumage | 19 answers |
| Plumed bird | 21 answers |
| CENTRAL American bird | 23 answers |
| Tropical bird | 40 answers |
| South American bird | 42 answers |
| "Bird" | 138 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with JACAMAR (5)
And there was I, in a yellow gown with green embroideries, gay as a jacamar, jarring hideously on myself.
One species of jacamar was not uncommon here (Galbula viridis); I sometimes saw two or three together seated on a slender branch, silent and motionless with the exception of a slight movement of the head; when an insect flew past within a short distance, one of the birds would dart off, seize it, and return again to its sitting-place.
There are three species of jacamar to be found on the different sandhills and dry savannas of Demerara; but there is another much larger and far more beautiful to be seen when you arrive in that part of the country where there are rocks.
The jacamar has no affinity to the woodpecker or kingfisher (notwithstanding what travellers affirm) either in its haunts or anatomy.
The Indians informed me that one species of jacamar lays its eggs in the wood-ants' nests, which are so frequent in the trees of Guiana, and appear like huge black balls.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, NYT.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1966–2013).