Crossword-Solution: LONGSPUR 8 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Longspur n. Any one of several species of fringilline birds of the
genus Calcarius (or Plectrophanes), and allied genera. The Lapland
longspur (C. Lapponicus), the chestnut-colored longspur (C. ornatus),
and other species, inhabit the United States.

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Bird with brownish plumage 1 answer
North American bird with brownish plumage 1 answer
any of various Arctic and North American buntings 1 answer
finch 12 answers
Arctic bird 29 answers
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Many of our more vigorous species, as the butcherbird, the crossbills, the pine grosbeak, the redpoll, the Bohemian chatterer, the shore lark, the longspur, the snow bunting, etc., are common to both continents.
Locusts and Wild Honey John Burroughs 2002
Lap-longspur, Snowbird, Shorelarks, and Pipits are here soaring and singing, or among the barren rocks are Ptarmigan in garments that are painted in the patterns of their rocks.
The Arctic Prairies Ernest Thompson Seton 2004
With a falcon-like swoop, the pirate seized the Longspur in his bill and bore it away to be devoured at the nearest perch.
The Arctic Prairies Ernest Thompson Seton 2004
Smith's Painted Longspur is usually considered a rare bird in the middle west, but a recent observer found it very common in the fields.
Birds Illustrated by Color Photograph [April, 1897] Various 2008
The Longspur is a ground feeder, and the mark of his long hind claw, or spur, can often be seen in the new snow.
Birds Illustrated by Color Photograph [April, 1897] Various 2008
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Appears in: NYT, Universal.

Used 3 times in crossword archives (1978–2006).