Crossword-Solution: PERDIX
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Perdix | n. | A genus of birds including the common European partridge. Formerly the word was used in a much wider sense to include many allied genera. |
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| DAEDALUS, victim of | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTAEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PERDIX (5)
And he first set up masts in ships, and yards, and his son made sails for them: but Perdix his nephew excelled him; for he first invented the saw and its teeth, copying it from the back-bone of a fish; and invented, too, the chisel, and the compasses, and the potter’s wheel which moulds the clay.
Judging, indeed, from all the evidences as yet collected, the interior of South Africa has remained in that condition since the period of the secondary rocks of geologists! Yet, whilst none of our countrymen found any evidences of old marine remains, Captain Speke brought from one of the ridges which lay between the coast and the lake Victoria N'yanza a fossil shell, which, though larger in size, is undistinguishable from the Achatina perdix now flourishing in South Africa.
And he first set up masts in ships, and yards, and his son made sails for them: but Perdix his nephew excelled him; for he first invented the saw and its teeth, copying it from the back-bone of a fish; and invented, too, the chisel, and the compasses, and the potter's wheel which molds the clay.
Not long after this, when the two were in a tall building, Daedalus gave Perdix a push that sent him headlong toward the ground.
Another kind, common both in Azerbijan and in the Elburz, is the black-breasted partridge (_Perdix nigra_)--a bird not known in many countries.