Crossword-Solution: PIRANHA 7 letters, 99 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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PIRANHA anagram HARPINA, PHARIAN

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Literally, "fish tooth" 1 answer
Piscatorial carnivore 1 answer
PERAI 1 answer
One in a dangerous school 1 answer
Omnivorous swimmer 1 answer
Omnivorous fish 1 answer
Nasty fish 1 answer
Mean fish 1 answer
Man-eating school 1 answer
Little fish with a big bite 1 answer
Literally, "tooth fish" 1 answer
Literally, "scissor-fish" 1 answer
Portuguese for "toothed fish" 1 answer
It might bite the hand that feeds it 1 answer
Instigator of school violence? 1 answer
GOLIATH tigerfish-like fish 1 answer
Fish with razor-sharp teeth 1 answer
Fish with a voracious appetite 1 answer
Fish with a nasty bite 1 answer
Fish with a big bite 1 answer
Fish known to bite the hand that feeds it 1 answer
Fish known for its bite 1 answer
Ferocious river dweller 1 answer
Ferocious fish 1 answer
Vicious fish in Teddy Roosevelt's "Through the Brazilian Wilderness" 1 answer
Avaricious fish 1 answer
Razor-toothed South American fish 1 answer
tropical fish with sharp teeth 1 answer
tropical fish with sharp teet 1 answer
small voraciously carnivorous freshwater fishes of South America that attack and destroy living animals 1 answer
piraya 1 answer
fierce fish of tropical America 1 answer
Word from a Brazilian language for "tooth fish" 1 answer
Voracious swimmer 1 answer
Voracious fish of the Amazon 1 answer
Voracious South American fish 1 answer
Feisty fish 1 answer
Toothy Amazon fish 1 answer
Swimmer to stay away from 1 answer
South American predator whose name translates to "tooth fish" 1 answer
Small carnivorous freshwater fish 1 answer
SOUTH American voracious fish 1 answer
Ruthless type 1 answer
Ruthless person 1 answer
Razor-toothed Amazon fish 1 answer
Ravenous fresh water fish 1 answer
RED-bellied pacu relative 1 answer
RAPACIOUS fish 1 answer
Creature after which the red-and-white plants in the "Super Mario" series are named 1 answer
"___ II: The Spawning" (James Cameron's directorial debut) 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
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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Sentences with PIRANHA (5)

The river was dangerous for bathing, because of a peculiar fish--the piranha--a savage little beast which attacks men and animals with its razor-like teeth, inflicts fearful wounds and may even kill any unfortunate creature which is caught by a school in deep water.
Theodore Roosevelt Edmund Lester Pearson 2001
The intermediate appears to be identical with the medium species of the piraya, or piranha, of Marcgrav.* (* Salmo rhombeus, Linn.) The caribito has a very agreeable flavour.
Equinoctial Regions of America V2 Alexander von Humboldt 2004
Before leaving the subject of fish, I will mention another species, smaller than the _piranha_, yet, although not as ferocious, the cause of much dread and annoyance to the natives living near the banks of the rivers.
In The Amazon Jungle Algot Lange 2005
Other fishes most frequently seen are the prettily-spotted catfish, Pescada, Piranha, Acará, which carries its young in its mouth, and a long, slender needle-fish.
The Andes and the Amazon James Orton 2006
What this does is make sure that any company that swallows you is going to be ingesting a piranha that will eat said company's own guts instead.
The Samurai Strategy Thomas Hoover 2010

Quotes with PIRANHA (3)

Cancer. The word meant the same to me as tsunami or piranha. I had never seen them; I wasn't even quite sure what they were, but I knew they were bad and I knew in many cases they were deadly.
Natalie Palmer Second Kiss
Currents of cigarette fumes wafted through what passed for air. Attractive young women in bright-hued gowns glided through the streams of smoke, like tropical fish in an aquarium. Detecting the white uniforms and leathery faces, they promptly approached the Navy men. Very pretty, Ed thought, but hungry, a school of piranha. Just what the doctor ordered: fun and games with no complications. Right: no complications." pg. 27.
Clark Zlotchew Once Upon a Decade: Tales of the Fifties
Nick and the Candlestick I am a miner. The light burns blue. Waxy stalactites Drip and thicken, tears The earthen womb Exudes from its dead boredom. Black bat airs Wrap me, raggy shawls, Cold homicides. They weld to me like plums. Old cave of calcium Icicles, old echoer. Even the newts are white, Those holy Joes. And the fish, the fish ----Christ! they are panes of ice, A vice of knives, A piranha Religion, drinking Its first communion out of my live toes. The candle Gulps an…
Sylvia Plath Ariel
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Used 70 times in crossword archives (1959–2024).