Crossword-Solution: SNOWBIRD
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Snowbird | n. | An arctic finch (Plectrophenax, / Plectrophanes, nivalis) common, in winter, both in Europe and the United States, and often appearing in large flocks during snowstorms. It is partially white, but variously marked with chestnut and brown. Called also snow bunting, snowflake, snowfleck, and snowflight. |
| Snowbird | n. | Any finch of the genus Junco which appears in flocks in winter time, especially J. hyemalis in the Eastern United States; -- called also blue snowbird. See Junco. |
| Snowbird | n. | The fieldfare. |
We have 22 clues for the answer “SNOWBIRD”
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| HUMAN-powered ornithopter, name of the first | 1 answer |
| person addicted to cocaine, or sometimes heroin | 1 answer |
| Vermonter who winters in Florida, say | 1 answer |
| Skiing fan | 1 answer |
| Part-time Florida resident | 1 answer |
| PALAEOARCTIC bird | 1 answer |
| One who heads south for the winter | 1 answer |
| New Yorker who winters in Miami or Fort Lauderdale, for example | 1 answer |
| MONTIFRINGILLA | 1 answer |
| MANPOWERED ornithopter, name of the first | 1 answer |
| Half-year Florida resident | 1 answer |
| ETHIOPIAN bird | 1 answer |
| Canadian in Miami in January | 1 answer |
| 1970 Anne Murray song | 1 answer |
| junco | 2 answers |
| ORIENTAL bird | 3 answers |
| mainliner | 5 answers |
| dope-fiend | 6 answers |
| Junkie | 7 answers |
| ACID head | 8 answers |
| tripper | 34 answers |
| Addict | 54 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SNOWBIRD (5)
The snowbird mendicant Intones the antiphon-- Et laboremus nos; And all the grottoed aisles along, Where servitors rejoice, The chorused echoes run-- Oremus nos.
The snowbird sings and soars 220:12 amid the blasts; he has no catarrh from wet feet, and procures a summer residence with more ease than a na- bob.
Few writers award any song to that familiar little sparrow, the Socialis; yet who that has observed him sitting by the wayside, and repeating, with devout attitude, that fine sliding chant, does not recognize the neglect? Who has heard the snowbird sing? Yet he has a lisping warble very savory to the ear.
The warblers and smaller flycatchers are generally the sufferers, though I sometimes see the slate-colored snowbird unconsciously duped in like manner; and the other day, in a tall tree in the woods, I discovered the black-throated green-backed warbler devoting itself to this dusky, over-grown foundling.
The snowbird was very abundant here, as it had been at various points along the route after leaving Lake George.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Three Across, Universal, WP.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1971–2023).